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It doesn't have to be recent English loan words for German dialects to make things weird.

http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/

(fyi: Butter is a loanword from Greek. I've heard "das Butter" as well.)

Kitchen terms are generally crazy. Do other languages also have hundreds of different terms for the last piece of a loaf of bread that is too thin for further slicing, but too thick to be considered a slice?

A small Swedish survey found at least 50 in common use:

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=411&art...

I just call that the Endstück, have never heard anything else. What other terms are common?

http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...

It's up there with potato with the most local variations I think

"Der Kanten". German wikipedia on "Kanten" gives many more local variations.

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