<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 30 May 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Karl-Heinz Lorenz <<a href="mailto:Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net">
Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Songs" 2007.05.31 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q" id="q_112e3bc8a379ebf4_1">> It's more commonly written "Piedel", but yes, it's a German slang term<br>
> for penis (northern German and Low Saxon too). But I can't imagine<br>> they really thought "Beatles" sounded like "Piedels"... They sound<br>> close, but cause of the difference between b and p and d and t not
<br>> close enough to be associated. Unless the Beatles performed in (the<br>> Bundesland of) Saxony, where b/p and t/d are articulated the same (but<br>> I guess they don't know the word "Piedel" there).
<br>><br>> Marcus Buck<br><br></span><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I
wondered, because in Viennese/Austrian there is the word "Beidel" and
it supposedly means (nearly) the same. In upper-Saxon there could be a
similar word, maybe with a halve diphtong "éi". I suppose that Piedel
has something to do with "pee" whereas "beidel" could be a cognate of
Standard-German "Beutel", so there's probably no link, as in
Austrian-Bavarian "pissen" is "bischen" and not "beischen".<br><br>Karl-Heinz<br><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">