Kimmelweck (1936-1937)

[Lynne Murphy]

May I hereby express my disappointment that AHD4 has deleted 'weck' and
'kummelweck' (and neither it nor its predecessors have kimmelweck).

Alas, alack!  My people!  My language!

Lynne of Western New York

--On Monday, January 22, 2001 12:27 pm +0000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    AOL decided to work again.
>    For some reason, LOC gives you three phonebooks at a time (if, indeed,
>    you receive three).  This plan works out real well. The first I
>    received for Buffalo was 1936/1937, and I went straight to "Bakers."
>
> 1936-1937, BUFFALO (NY), pg. 24, col. 1:
> Franz Frank J
>    Rye Bread--Kimmelwecks--Our Specialty
> 240 High...LIncln-7773
>
> 1938-1939, BUFFALO (NY), pg. 25, col. 1:
> Strasburger's Bakery
>    Dinner Rolls--Kummel Wecks A Specialty
> 165 Goodell...WAshgtn-0565
>
> (Same "Franz" entry in later years--ed.)



M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
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