[frivolity] I just had an etymological realisation

[kaberett]

The standard German for cream is Rahm.

The Austrian for cream is Obers.

It has only just occurred to me that that's as in ober as in "upper" or "above" as in the floaty bits.

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[kaberett]

wait I'm being inept, it's actually just the "cream" word

(I'm also a bit facepalm at myself for being so bad at standard German that I temporarily completely forgot Sahne)

[vass]

(Let me tell you about the time I learned the word 'Ross' long before the word 'Pferd' because German opera libretti have more steeds than horses. Vocab is weird, and so are brains.)