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Old 14th March 2025, 12:46 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey View Post
But again with English. I habitually carry a pocket knife. Many of my friends carry one too. Some of my friends call their pocket knife a folder, some call it a jack knife, a very few might give that pocket knife its technically correct name, like "barlow knife", or "stock knife", or "pen knife" or whatever. I don't know why, maybe it was usage in their own families, or in the location where they grew up.
This phenomenon we have everywhere, the sickle knife attached I know under the name "hippe", my grandmother used such a knife in her garden. But this knife is known under several names in Germany, in other regions you would call the same implement "heppe", "häbe", "hape" "knipp", "säsle" "sesel", "schneier" or "gertel".
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