Word: schwanger
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STEFFI GRAF and ANDRE AGASSI, tennis' high-profile love match--thank you very much!--announced last week that "Steffi ist schwanger!" (That's "pregnant," for those of you who don't speak German.) "This is a very exciting time for us," said Agassi in an official statement. "We are so happy to have been blessed with this gift." Graf, 32, and Agassi, 31, have been together since 1999. Rumors of the pregnancy started flying at this year's Wimbledon, where Graf kept an unusually low profile. The German newspaper Bild, quoting Graf's mother Hannah, says the couple are expecting...
...American Heritage Dictionary editors nearly deleted chad from the latest edition because they felt it was obsolete. And take pity on the poor foreign-news outlets as they try to translate "pregnant chad." Parlo.com a languages website, offered suggestions: in Cantonese, dye toad tsee (big stomach paper); in German, schwanger Stanzabfall (pregnant punch waste); and in Russian, beremennaya confette (pregnant confetti...
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