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Otto Waalkes in Hamburg in mid-September: »Staaark«
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The Ottifanten by comedian Otto Waalkes, 74, have made it into the dictionary.
At least they can now find interested parties on the duden.de website.
"The Ottifant has been online in Duden for a day or two," said the head of the Duden editorial team at Cornelsen-Verlag to the dpa news agency.
It remains to be seen whether the famous figure will also be included in the next printed Duden, she explained.
»That will be decided in a complex editorial process in the months before the next edition appears.« However, it is not yet certain when this will be published.
Waalkes spoke up with an Instagram post and was happy about the Duden entry.
“Staaark – my Ottifant is now in the Duden!” posted the East Frisian.
He can now always read how to spell and pronounce the word correctly and even look up the genitive of it.
"I didn't even know he had a genitive - he never showed me that."
On duden.de, the word Ottifant is explained as follows: »A figure of an elephant designed by the German comedian Otto Waalkes, which shows human characteristics« and »Artificial word formed from the first name Otto and ›elephant‹.«
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