Men have tried to turn revolutionise from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

(Venetic apparently had both kinds of boustrophedon, either flipping the face of the characters when switching direction or else inverting them (Lejeune, 1974, pages 180-181).)

Their own version of brown ale, long the signature beer of the Düsseldorf region in northwestern Germany, is called altbier, literally old beer.

In German-speaking countries, there is a legend that a left-handed snail specimen is a “snail king” — Schneckenkönig.