[slightly OT]: German "englisch" = rare

[Barbara Need]

I would guess that this is to due the English roast beef being fairly
rare (at least according to my stereotypes of English roast beef).
Reference to beef "in the English style" (or whatever the German is)
might be an intermediate step.

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

>That is curious. I can find that adverbial usage "englisch gebraten"
>in my bilingual Oxford-Duden, but not my German-only Wahrig. Wahrig
>does show an entry for an "Englischrot." Have you checked the online
>Grimm's dictionary? http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/DWB
>
>---Amy West
>
>>Date:    Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:01:43 -0500
>>From:    "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
>>Subject: [slightly OT]: German "englisch" = rare
>>
>>Would anyone know why one of the German words for "rare" (opposite
>>of well-done) meat is "englisch," which literally means "English"?
>>Are the British known for preferring their meat rare? Does the word
>>refer to the redcoats? Is there another explanation I'm completely
>>missing?
>>
>>Gerald Cohen
>
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