> Gary, "Heuermann" I can't find listed in any of my dictionaries (but > then I do not have a Grimms Wörterbuch - yet) but being born and > raised in Northern Germany and used to Low German dialect I know the > word quite well: it means about the same as Tagelöhner, a hired man on > a farm. In today's standard German the word "heuern" is current as > denoting the hiring of sailors, though DER SPIEGEL would not hesitate > to write something like "Die Firma heuerte einen renommierten > Rechtsberater an" or translates "hire and fire" quite aptly as "heuern > und feuern".
In HH I think I once heard it used to refer to a DM 5 coin, or was that a Haiermann? JK ============================================================================== John King St. John's College GB - Oxford OX1 3JP ==============================================================================
