Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-108.57.82.229-20131214021905/@comment-2255188-20131214201804

Actually, Dragonfighter has a point. Out here, there is a bird (the house sparrow) which we call a spatzie. That's not a word in German, but it comes from a German word that means "sparrow". This bird is the only local bird that belongs to the family the Europeans call sparrows, so it's technically an accurate name, but it was probably initially called the Spatz (SHPAATS) and gradually evolved into spatzie (SPAT-see)-- note the pronunciation has been butchered as well.