DANKE, DUOLINGO

✦ I chuckled at “Words on the Street”

(March/

about the German

April)

friend who couldn’t find her car because multiple streets had the same name as the one she’d left it on: One Way. My sister once couldn’t find her hostel in Germany because it was on a street called

Einbahnstraße

(translation: “one-way street”). —Elise Teepe eatontown, new jersey ✦ As a newlywed, I joined my husband during his tour in Germany. Knowing little of the language, I asked him why so many streets were named Einbahn.

He laughed and said it meant “one-way.” That Christmas he bought me a miniature railroad sign painted just like the road

Einbahnstraße

signs. I still have it! —Carol Kolibaba Nieman portland, oregon