Wordie: Zugunruhe: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:07:47 +0000

Maybe that's why the birds felt an urge to migrate. ;->

Comment by Misterpolly, 8 months ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:10:20 +0000

and all these years I've been thinking it was a railwaymen's strike in Germany!

Comment by brtom, 8 months ago

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:14:49 +0000

Four years on, my personal declaration of, and against, lexical ignorance runs from "abscissa" (Cormac McCarthy) to "zugunruhe" (William Fiennes, who admittedly provided a helpful contextual explanation of this, the migratory restlessness of birds). James Meek

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:28:44 +0000

This is one of those words that you look at and think, "Well that's from German".

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:05:07 +0000

The urge to migrate, especially as exhibited by captive birds.