TipTopSwiss366: TipTopSwiss 6:366

Friday 6 January 2012

TipTopSwiss 6:366

Today is Heilige Drei Könige otherwise known as Epiphany or Three Kings Day. Loaves like these are made to celebrate. In the sweet bread as well as sultanas and almonds one person will find a plastic figure of a king or a bean. The person who find the king is given the crown and becomes king or queen for the day.

In German you count 1-10 like this:-
Ein
Zwei
Drei
Vier
Fünf
Sechs
Sieben
Acht
Neun
Zehn

But in Swiss German you count :-
Eis
Zwei
Drüü
Vier
Feuf
Sächs
Sibe
Acht
Nüün
Zää

The Swiss like their umlauts - and double vowels!

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Lisibo's 2012 challenge

This blog is my 2012 challenge - post a photograph of the something Swiss, and share a word or two in one of the languages of Switzerland every day for a year.

This follows on from Window on my world 365 my 2011 challenge to photograph the view of / from a window each day, and Trees365 my 2010 challenge to post a photograph of a tree.

And if you want to follow my family's first steps as we settle in Switzerland, you might like to see SwissMiss-Adventures.

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