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Fred Penner - Sandwiches Are Beautiful
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Penner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder.
The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch
My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German.
This concludes my TED talk.
If I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.
Interesting. I would have said Unrau is a german name. Meanings change over time. My Surname (Kraus) could be from either Upper Palatinate or Thuringia meaning "someone with curly hairs" or "maker/seller of jugs". As a child I had a blond Afro with lots and lots of little curls. I guess that's where my Familie name originates from. My grand father had hair like Albert Einstein.