After booking a visit to The Poznań Potato Museum I found the tour was not available in English*, so I would need to translate as best I can for my family. Which, considering I struggle to understand spoken Polish at normal speed, will probably result in me making it up as I go along. But: best foot forward; I shall do my best. (*The reply from the museum said the tour was mainly in Polish, which is fair enough considering the Museum is situated in Poland) A bit of advance preparation is needed, so I will note some spud related vocabulary here. I first learned that Ziemniak is the word for potato, but just as we have spuds, tatties, and taters, the Polish have other words for potato. There is the Germanic word kartofel , but in the Poznań area the dialect word pyra is used, pyry being the plural, but also the genitive singular. What other vocabulary may crop up? uprawa / uprawy - crop / crops uprawiać - to grow / cultivate uprawa polowa - field crop bulwa
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