A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don’t know that “xylophones” with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.

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German Glocke = English bell = made out of metal

Literally Glockenspiel = bell game

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Chiming in for clarification: Literally it’s “bell game” but the word’s meaning is more like “bells that play” or “bells to play with”.

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Oh yah, play with mein bells

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Aw man I just spieled on mein glock

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And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.

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