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(Well, stop imagining and watch the video) the problem is, for a western-european like me, that usually your height helps you quite a bit with the everyday struggle with the ubiquitous crowd. but when it is raining the umbrellas are just at eye level … .. and: autsch!
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The New English Dictionary refers it to the German autsch, and Thornton says that it may have come across with the Dunkers or the Mennonites.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921
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