Or at least it’s a really annoying (nervig) and superfluous (überflüssig) one. That’s how the Association of the Friends of the German Language voted this year. They prefer the German word for sale, it seems. Whatever the hell that is.

And the word they liked for 2009 was Abwrackprämie (cash for clunkers), which is also a German word for sale, kind of.

I don’t take these folks all that seriously, though, nor should you. Their website doesn’t even offer an English version link thingy.

Der 1997 gegründete VDS mit mehr als 31.000 Mitgliedern bezeichnet sich selbst als „die weltweit größte Sprach-Bürgerbewegung“.