Übersetzung für '
Urban Legend' von Englisch nach Deutsch
| NOUN | an urban legend | urban legends |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- This is an urban legend which emerged several decades after the speech, and it is not true that residents of Berlin in 1963 would have mainly understood the word "Berliner" to refer to a jelly doughnut or that the audience laughed at Kennedy's use of this expression.
- There had been an urban legend that Carradine frequently acted in his show while under the influence of drugs.
- An urban legend surfaced in 2011 when a Tumblr blog titled Dr.
- In this broader metaphorical sense, the word suggests a claim that is in the nature of folklore, factoid or urban legend.
- The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend, and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales.
- The "Ozark Howler", a large bear-like animal, is the subject of a similar urban legend.
- Nicholas figures in an urban legend about the Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway.
- The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an urban legend focused on a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
- Sometimes a backronym is reputed to have been used in the formation of the original word, and amounts to a false etymology or an urban legend.
- There is an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas, at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.
- An urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine.
- According to the urban legend, bored tourists wanted to play a version of poker no-one has ever played before, so they came up with this game.
- A common urban legend claims that duck quacks do not echo; however, this has been proven to be false.
- A persistent urban legend exists that the name is derived from "New York" and "London"; however, no organisation in London was ever involved in the research and production of nylon.
- An urban legend exists surrounding Roussimoff's 1987 surgery in which his size made it impossible for the anesthesiologist to estimate a dosage via standard methods; consequently, his alcohol tolerance was used as a guideline instead.
- Urban legends will often try to invoke a feeling of disgust in the reader which tends to make these stories more memorable and potent.
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