The "xylo" is greek for wood
The "xylo" is greek for wood
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A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don't know that "xylophones" with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.
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This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one
It took more effort than it should to unlearn this
9 0 ReplyGerman Glocke = English bell = made out of metal
Literally Glockenspiel = bell game
9 0 ReplyChiming in for clarification: Literally it's "bell game" but the word's meaning is more like "bells that play" or "bells to play with".
10 0 ReplyOh yah, play with mein bells
10 0 ReplyAw man I just spieled on mein glock
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And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.
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Xylo=wood in Greek
Knowing this made this even more confusing though!
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