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Hahaha, so true, so true …
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My husband thinks they should have included the incredibly ridiculous word “Hubschrauber” (helicopter).
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Ha, ha – mind you we have “chopper”!
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That’s true, haha, but that’s colloquial, is it not? Hubschrauber is, alas, an official word.
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Yes (at least on this side of the Atlantic). Hubschrauber has it’s own beauty (and I’m not referring to the first six letters)?
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Haha, nice! It means something like lifted by screw movements, so clumsy. I just read in my online dictionary that the Americans also seem to call them whirlybirds and eggbeaters.
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Ha, ha!
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