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And Hauptmann's theory, which got him the degree of Ph.D., maxima cum laude, was that Lombard is an East Germanic tongue. This he simple intuited, needing the degree, for the fifty mangled Lombard words displayed none of those consonants which tending to double or of those vowels which still vexing us as umlauts, mark a language as belonging to the great Eastern or Western group.
Especially is this easily accomplished if actually written in the Vaterland, German typewriting machines being equipped with umlauts. And yet not one of these formulas would seem to fit the story of Mary Gowd.
Now you look like a German in American clothes. I don't know I do believe it's your face, Ted. I wouldn't have thought that ten years or so in any country could change the shape of one's nose, and mouth and cheekbones. Do you suppose it's the umlauts?" "Cut it out!" laughed Ted, that being his idea of modern American slang.
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