Münsterländisch proverbs

Münsterländisch is a Westphalian dialect spoken in the city Münster in Western Germany.

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  • Hauge Klemmer un daipe Schwemmer wåret nich ålt.
    • English equivalent: The best swimmers often drown.
    • "There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster."
    • Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
    • von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "348, Schwimmer" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 194. 

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