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In the January 12th New Yorker piece on Howard Dean, the author writes, "In the town of Randolph, an hour southeast of Burlington, I found my way to an echt-Vermont white clapboard country inn,..."I...

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Only heard of echt Deutsch and then I think only in language/learning contexts. Hasn't stuck as well as 'ersatz' did.

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It's in the OED2. At the risk of incurring diegogarcity that will prove me wrong, I will say that I've never seen it used in the wild.

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Dave are the citations in the OED2 recent? And do they use the hyphen?

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The most recent is 1962. They use a mix of hyphenated and unhyphenated (i.e., space "echt English"). Also just plain "echt" as in 1962 N. FREELING Love in Amsterdam II. 70 "Are you married? he...

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I've seen it in the wild, but would consider it a bit twee. The New Yorker example is about right.Not sure if twee is quite the right word, but.

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Is echt- definitely borrowed from German? I'm asking because I presume Dutch has a similar word, since the Afrikaans equivalent is egte (pronounced much the same).

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OED2 says German.In general, I think German has donated more words to English than has Dutch. We've had lots of German immigrants in the US, plus fighting wars leads to cultural contact. Given an...

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And in this case the earliest cite in the OED is:"1916 G. B. SHAW in New Age 25 May, 'Many Englishmen who know Germany, and whose social opinions are echt Junker opinions, hail this war as a means of...

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Probably strong reinforced in English by the occurrence of echt deutsch on the first page of The Waste Land.

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