What we, in the English speaking world, call “beer steins” aren’t called such in Germany (the country with which the heavy hinge-lidded earthenware drinking mugs are most closely associated). In Germany, they are called “krug” or “steinkrug” and the usage in English is believed to have originated from the truncation of the German word for stoneware jug or tankard, “steinzeugkrug”.
May 24, 2022
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What we, in the English speaking world, call “beer steins” aren’t called such in Germany (the country with which the heavy hinge-lidded earthenware drinking mugs are most closely associated). In Germany, they are called “krug” or “steinkrug” and the usage in English is believed to have originated from the truncation of the German word for stoneware jug or tankard, “steinzeugkrug”.
⌨️ Laptops, keyboards, mice, oh my!
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