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Americans learning to spell bourgeoisie: Imagine a burger, spelt differently

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Werner herzog spelling bourgeoisie: I do not respect the french language

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in dutch burger means citizen

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It’s because all those words have the same root:

  • Either from the Proto-West Germanic “burg”, which means fortification/fortified town (maybe goes even back further to the Proto-Germanic “burgz”)

  • or possibly the Ancient-Greek word “pýrgos”, which was a tower fort

  • or maybe something else. Proto-Celtic or if we go way back: the Proto-Indo-European bʰergʰ- “to protect”

There’s a lot of speculation involved to where exactly the roots are, but in the end it all means a small castle or fortified town in which the “burger” lived.

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Cheesed…borgar?

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