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Dub: (Pronounced “doob”.) A term used by Americans in Rimbach to refer to the local German people. The etymology seems to be that Dub is the word for oak in Czech (and other Slavic languages) and calling a German “Dub” was meant to describe him/her as strong and stout like an oak tree with behavioral characteristics (e.g. stubbornness) to match. Occasionally may have also implied that a Dub’s mind could be compared with an acorn.
Dub: (Pronounced “doob”.) A term used by American solders in Germany to refer to the German people. The term came from the sound the German Police vehicles sirens emitted, dub-bee-dub-bee-dub-bee. It was not meant to be derogatory, it was a word coined to mean German or in its plural form, Dubs, Germans. ]