Because learning new, foreign words is fun!
Greetings logophiles and other creative types!
It’s time for Wicked Word Wednesday, and the Wicked Word is:
raths·kel·ler [\ˈrät-ˌske-lər, ˈrat-, ˈrath-\]
noun
a usually basement tavern or restaurant
Did You Know?
Rathskeller is a product of Germany, deriving from two German nouns: Rat (also spelled Rath in early Modern German), which means “council,” and Keller, which means “cellar.” (Nouns in German are always capitalized.) The etymology reflects the fact that many early rathskellers were located in the basements of “council houses,” which were equivalent to town halls. (The oldest rathskeller found in Germany today is said to date from the first half of the 13th century.) The earliest known use of rathskeller in English dates from 1766, but the word wasn’t commonly used until the 1900s. Although the German word is now spelled Ratskeller, English writers have always preferred the spelling with the “h”-most likely to avoid any association with the word rat. [source]
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Running In My Head 
Not played for ages, but couldn’t resist today. Here’s my entry and it’s 42 too! (@BBWinch)
There was a bookseller
Reading a bestseller
Whilst drinking a glass of port
He sat on a propeller
In his dingy rathskeller
And had a very hairy wart
I quite liked this bookseller
Sat in his rathskeller
So joined him drinking port
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Oh, I need to get back into this game…hmmm. (That word was pretty common when I grew up…which is odd as there are no basements…wish I could remember how it was used. Always though it sounded cool…and it had a “t” here – rats!
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Now is as good a time as any!
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