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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A feeling for language; an ear for the idiomatically correct or appropriate.

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  1. n. Alternative form of Sprachgefühl.

Etymologies

  1. German : Sprache, language (from Middle High German sprāche, from Old High German sprāhha) + Gefühl, feeling (from fühlen, to feel, from Middle High German vuelen, from Old High German vuolen). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. intuitive feeling
  1. feeling

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  • reesetee That's not just festive, frindley--that's a veritable carnival! Nov 13, 2008

  • frindley Nøw, nøw, døn't discriminåtë ågåinst øther Nørdic diåcriticåls! Nov 13, 2008

  • dontcry �? ägrëë - möst fëstïvë ïndëëd! Nov 13, 2008

  • reesetee *pondering*

    Nöööö...stïll fëstïvë. ;-) Nov 13, 2008

  • wytukaze Festive, or metal? I'm quite fond of the phenomenon that is the heavy metal umlaut. Especially when Germans pronounce the bandnames that have them.

    Röck and röll! Bëër! Sëx! Drügs! Dreämy düskywing! Nov 13, 2008

  • reesetee They do seem to make words a bit more festive. Nov 12, 2008

  • dontcry Yöü dön't säÿ? Nov 12, 2008

  • mcritz Anything German and/or containing umlauts gets high marks in my book. Nov 12, 2008

  • wytukaze Actually, they're likely to be split over three variants—the one with the umlaut intact (sprachgefühl), the one without (sprachgefuhl), and the entumlautet (that is to say, de-umlauted) version done ‘correctly’: sprachgefuehl. Quite an issue, then. Nov 12, 2008

  • gangerh Such a lovely word and meaning and I was going to second it as a Wordie flagship word but you've just identified a handicap, sionnach. So unsuchencumbered schadenfreudgeon then. Apr 23, 2008

  • sionnach This raises the interesting issue, that words with an umlaut, like this one, automatically must get shafted in the frequency count, since their occurrences are likely to be split over two variants. Apr 23, 2008

  • mollusque Also listed as sprachgefuhl. Apr 23, 2008

  • ofravens This is the most perfect word ever. Why does English not have more words like this? Apr 20, 2008

  • adoarns Love how so many old-skool linguistic terms are from DEU. Dec 17, 2007

  • angharad lit. language feeling: "an ear for idiomatically appropriate language"
    http://wordsmith.org/words/sprachgefuhl.html Dec 2, 2006

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