We have already hinted elsewhere that we want to create a collection of synonyms or translations for the short Cologne dialect word "Tschö", perhaps with your help. As short as the word is, it has a lot of meaning: I'm through the door now, take care, I wish you all the best, we'll see each other again. Five letters with a lot of meaning. Unlike the Viennese, who launch into a veritable torrent of words: Bye-bye, kisses, see you soon! But let's begin in Germany: High German A

Finally Friday afternoon, home, shower, eat, and then off to the village pub with my buddies. There we'd chat, play cards until the dice were smoking or the meager 245 DM from my first-year apprentice wages were blown. 245 DM might sound like a lot at first: my parents took 80 DM, put 80 DM aside for clothes and such, leaving about 80 DM for leisure. Spread over four weekends a month, and with a Kölsch costing 1 DM at Clemens'... well, I wasn't the one in our group who had th