Example sentences for: meowk

How can you use “meowk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • “Forced’ for forest would hardly be surprising among German settlers, for Forst is a German word for forest . More intriguing is “meowk’ for milk . In the Bernese dialect of Swiss-German, the l is replaced by a rather indistinct u sound, so that the German Milch becomes Miuch (with “ch’ as in “loch’).

  • I have heard milk pronounced “meowk” by one of my Georgia relatives, but I would hesitate to label “meowk” as an example of double-syllable Slurvian.

  • About the nearest American equivalent would be “meowk,’ so it would be interesting to ascertain whether Bernese farmers might not have settled in Georgia at some time.


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