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Help[Facts] Re: German pronounciation question
in reply to a message by tibby
The old Hamburg dialectal feature of s-t at the beginning of the word famous is the phrase "s-tolpern über einen s-pitzen S-tein" is dying out rapidly, as this map clearly shows:
https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/stein/
The colourings are: blue: This feature is unknown; yellow: Was used in the past, but not nowadays; pink: only elderly people use it; the possible answer "it is in current use here" was not ticked frequently enough to be shown on the map.
https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/stein/
The colourings are: blue: This feature is unknown; yellow: Was used in the past, but not nowadays; pink: only elderly people use it; the possible answer "it is in current use here" was not ticked frequently enough to be shown on the map.
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