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Many years ago I was working in the town of Winterthur in Switzerland. I wondered why everyone was falling about laughing when I had asked for a kilo of "Träume", which I thought was the name of the lovely, seedless grapes which had just come into season. It was only when I checked the dictionary at home that I realised that I should have asked for "Trauben", rather than a kilo of dreams.

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