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== Pretzels ==
[[File:Brezel.png|thumb|upright=.6|What pretzels (the large soft ones and the small hard ones) are called in various dialects of German]]
The Italian "''la brazzatella''" sounds quite similar to the German ''"die Brezel"''… Or is it ''"des das Brezel"''? Or ''"der Brezel"''? German speakers can't agree as to on the grammatical gender of their pretzels. The jury is also out on whether the first "e" in this word is long or short (as in ''"der/die/das Bretzel"''). There are also those, mostly in Bavaria and Austria, who call it ''"die Brezen"'' (or ''"der Brezen"''). Or even ''"die Brezg"'', as they say along the Bavarian-Swabian border.<ref> {{Cyt
| tytuł = Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache
| rozdział = Bre(t)z-