# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938 "2020-01-25T03:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 224
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4462 "2020-12-22T14:27:58Z")
**Holiday foods from around the world; holiday repeats allowed** 1. latkes for Hanukkah 2. fruitcakes for Christmas (although there are those that deny fruitcakes are meant to be eaten) 3. pickled herring for New Year’s Eve 4. corned beef & cabbage for New Year’s Day 5. Kransekake - Christmas, usually 6. Hamantaschen for Purim 7. Grilled hot dogs and burgers for Labor Day 8. Pfeffernüsse for Christmas 9. Suman ibus, in Zamboanga, for New Years 10. Turkey and all the trimmings, for an American Thanksgiving 11. Sufganiyot, in Israel, for Hanukkah 12. Danish æbleskivers for Christmas 13. Lamb chops and pecan pie for Festivus **Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley He was dead to begin with, dead as a doornail. ---
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**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4464 "2020-12-22T15:13:35Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4465 "2020-12-22T15:18:23Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4466 "2020-12-22T16:18:29Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4467 "2020-12-22T16:43:16Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife Just looked it up - never knew Dickens gave her a first name! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4468 "2020-12-22T17:07:32Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4469 "2020-12-22T17:31:56Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit 8. Ghost of Christmas Past ---
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**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit 8. Ghost of Christmas Past 9. Ghost of Christmas Present ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4471 "2020-12-22T22:44:06Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit 8. Ghost of Christmas Past 9. Ghost of Christmas Present 10. Dick Wilkins ---
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**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit 8. Ghost of Christmas Past 9. Ghost of Christmas Present 10. Dick Wilkins 11. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come ---
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**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit 8. Ghost of Christmas Past 9. Ghost of Christmas Present 10. Dick Wilkins 11. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come 12. Old Joe _(the pawnbroker who buys the things pilfered from Scrooge’s bedchamber)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4474 "2020-12-23T02:44:34Z")
**Characters from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_** 1. Jacob Marley 2. Mr. Fezziwig 3. Ebenezer Scrooge 4. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew 5. Bob Cratchit 6. Emily Cratchit, his wife 7. Tiny Tim Cratchit 8. Ghost of Christmas Past 9. Ghost of Christmas Present 10. Dick Wilkins 11. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come 12. Old Joe \*\< 13. The street boy who was sent to fetch the turkey and deliver it to Cratchets Pass ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4475 "2020-12-23T02:49:36Z")
Words that are near-cognates in nearly all languages, with notable exceptions 1. television – German, fernsehen ---
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Words that are near-cognates in nearly all languages, with notable exceptions 1. television – German, fernsehen 2. coffee **Afrikaans** : koffie | **Albanian** : kafe | **Arabic** : قهوة (qahua) | **French** : Café | **Azerbaijani** : qəhvə | **Basque** : kafea | **Belarussian** : кава (kava) | **Bengali** : কফি (kaphi) | **Bosnian** : kafa | **Bulgarian** : кафе (kafe) | **Catalan** : cafè | **Cebuano** : kape | **Chichewa** : khofi | **Chinese** : 咖啡 (Kāfēi) | **Corsican** : caffè | **Croatian** : kava | **Czech** : káva | **Danish** : kaffe | **Dutch** : koffie | **Italian** : caffè | **German** : Kaffee | **Thai** : กาแฟ (Kāfæ) | **Sawahili** : kahawa | **Spanish** : café | **Portuguese** : café | **Turkish** : kahveh | **Croatian** : kava | **Lithuanian** : kava | **Polish** : kawa (kava) | **Slovakian** : kava | **Ukrainian** : kavy or kava | **Georgian** : qava | **Hungarian** : kavé | **Serbian** : kafa | **Slovenian** : kave | **Yiddish** : kave | **Filipino** / **Tagalog** : kape | **Hawaiian** : kope | **Indonesian** : kopi | **Korean** : keopi | **Malay** : kawah or koppi | **Sinhalese** (Sri Lanka): kopi | **Tamil** (Sri Lanka): kapi-kottai or kopi. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4477 "2020-12-23T03:47:14Z")
What’s the “notable exception” for coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/4478 "2020-12-23T14:37:18Z")
Sorry. Javanese - “warung” ---
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Words that are near-cognates in nearly all languages, with notable exceptions 1. television – German, _fernsehen_ 2. coffee – Javanese - _warung_ 3. soccer/football - Italian - _calcio_ ---
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Words that are near-cognates in nearly all languages, with notable exceptions 1. television – German, _fernsehen_ 2. coffee – Javanese - _warung_ 3. soccer/football - Italian - _calcio_ 4. salt - Welsh, _halen_ ---
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Words that are near-cognates in nearly all languages, with notable exceptions 1. television – German, _fernsehen_ 2. coffee – Javanese, _warung_ 3. soccer/football - Italian, _calcio_ 4. salt - Welsh, _halen_ 5. taxi(cab) - Norwegian, _drosje_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=223) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=225)