Does one or another of our keywords sound foreign to you, perhaps Spanish, French, or even from an entirely different language family? If so, you should take this little book in hand and start browsing through it. For certainly, human language is alive, and that's why some things inevitably fade from memory, but many dialect words deserve to be used further, as they are beautiful in their underlying imagery. Norbert Göttler has reflected on exactly such words. Originally published regularly under the title "Our Bavarian Word" in the Münchner Merkur, his texts are now collected in one volume. But fear not, you will not find the omissions of a stern language policeman here, but rather the entertaining and well-founded reflections of a proud dialect speaker.