Ja, Yeah

So, what makes this american affirmation, come into existence.

For the past few days, I have been reading quite a bit on America [you can call it random reading, because I follow the hyperlinks ;-)].

I used to feel that, there must have been a sensible reason on why this German word became so common in America.

Today, I have discovered that, that 60 million Americans (according to 2000 US census), have German ancestry.

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