Kuckuck

They felt humiliated when the court claimed their furniture against unpaid bills and the bailiff pasted the evidence of their failure, the Kuckuck—cuckoo, on the back of a cupboard or desk.

Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

They felt humiliated when the court claimed their furniture against unpaid bills and the bailiff pasted the evidence of their failure, the Kuckuck—cuckoo, on the back of a cupboard or desk.

Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

They felt humiliated when the court claimed their furniture against unpaid bills and the bailiff pasted the evidence of their failure, the Kuckuck—cuckoo, on the back of a cupboard or desk.

Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

They felt humiliated when the court claimed their furniture against unpaid bills and the bailiff pasted the evidence of their failure, the Kuckuck—cuckoo, on the back of a cupboard or desk.

Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

They felt humiliated when the court claimed their furniture against unpaid bills and the bailiff pasted the evidence of their failure, the Kuckuck—cuckoo, on the back of a cupboard or desk.

Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

(See also Kuckuck, _Die Rechenkunst im sechzehnten Jahrhundert_, Berlin, 1874, p. 7; Günther, _Geschichte_, p. 316.) [243] "La dixième s'appelle chifre vulgairement: les vns l'appellant zero: nous la pourrons appeller vn Rien."

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

On May 30th Castlereagh received a report from a Hanoverian officer, Kuckuck, stating that Hanover and Hesse were ripe for revolt, and that Hameln might easily be seized if the

The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

Elsewhere afield, the curlew, with its cry of courli, is obviously named, as is the cuckoo, whose name is similar in many languages (French coucou, German Kuckuck, Greek kokkux, Latin cuculus).

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 3 1997