[German] Meaning of "grad".

[Seth David Schoen]

Christoph Maier writes:

> Presently, I would agree.

I wonder if there's a good table of common German contractions and
abbreviations.  There's "raus" < heraus, and I remember rüber
(< herüber) from "Komm rüber!"

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Conrad_Schumann

I've also heard "dran" is from "daran".

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