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Sir: Jilly Cooper and Paul Barnett (report, 16 January; letter, 18 January) have both got it wrong. Glockenspiel is a German word and years ago, at a party in Austria, when I said I didn't know much German, I was asked to try to say something in that language.
Inventing rapidly, I said: "Meine Grossmutter hat ein grosses Glockenspiel" ... whereupon the assembled company fell about laughing. It was explained to me that in some areas of Austria, "Glockenspiel" is dialect for "bum".
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