<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 13:41 André Müller, <<a href="mailto:esperantist@gmail.com">esperantist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I remember a famous poem/cartoon by Wilhelm Busch (famous in Germany) about a boy named Christian (or Krischan, as it was written in Low German) who takes his father's pipe and smokes it. The pipe was called a "Meerschaumpfeife".<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Apparently the word was also borrowed into English, as "meerschaum" (a soft white mineral, literally ‘sea foam’) and is indeed used for making pipes.</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See:</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerschaum_pipe">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerschaum_pipe</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">De'vID</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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