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Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional household words that set you apart?
Question submitted by Gladys.

I grew up in a rather German household (known especially for precision timing and NOT EVER being late). There were occasional bits of German in our household lexicon. First and foremost of these were Klimpers.

Klimpers
Klimpers
You may know them as tongs, but for me they are forever Klimpers. I actually did not realize that other people called Klimpers tongs until I was well into adulthood. Tongs were something else all together - a kind of scissors-like gripping apparatus. We had tongs growing up, but those weren't the same thing as Klimpers.

Now, I know that Klimpers is not a real German word. I think my grandfather probably made it up. But it's the perfect word for... Klimpers.

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