At least a third of children with non-German roots and a tenth of those growing up in German-speaking homes do not speak standard German properly.
There are lots of daggers, because they were part of the standard German uniform.
It has its own grammatical rules, which can allow for greater expressiveness than standard German.
In 1931, as the Austrian bank Creditanstalt collapsed, pulling down the banks of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, a run on the German currency forced it off the Gold Standard in May, then the British Labour government struggled to maintain its currency peg - imposing austerity onto its own voters as the price.
Sir John Krebs, chairman of Britain's Food Standard Agency, said now every German beef carcass entering Britain would be subject to automatic inspection.
In renewable energy news, the German town of Feldheim has set a new standard for energy independence by generating 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources and operating its own power grid.
The Joola, however, was something of a standard-issue ferry inconspicuously constructed in a German shipyard.
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This battle is about to be re-enacted in the euro zone, where higher-cost countries have tied themselves to a new gold standard, in the form of the hyper-efficient German export machine.
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Exclusion from Prime Standard also means exclusion from the Dax, the main German share benchmark, and therefore makes Porsche's shares less likely to be bought by large investment funds which track indexes.
Furthermore, we will learn how SAP is partnering with the German Development Organization (GIZ) to support Ghana in meeting the global standard for transparency in the oil and mining industries set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
SAP, a German software firm, and PeopleSoft, an American one, are now offering standard ways of organising and delivering administrative office work.
Fulham will face another German side in their first semi-final in the shape of Hamburg, who overcame Standard Liege 5-2 on aggregate.
In November a pair of German computer science students made a critical first step toward cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard, or WPA, once heralded as the solution to WEP's insecurity.
The number of American filers for U.S. patents, the global standard for protecting intellectual property, was five times the number of British, French, and German filers combined in 2010.
The U.S. government's FIPS 140-2 certification of BlackBerry 10 and the selection of BlackBerry 10 by the German Procurement Office and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) underline how our new platform continues to set the standard for government communications.
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