Note 111 — LETTER XXV.
Reading edition
The inhabitants themselves cannot perfectly decide which termination is the right.{*}
{*} This is a joke which will be understood only by those who are acquainted with the peculiarities of the Berlin dialect. The inhabitants continually confound verbs which govern the dative mir (to me,) with those which require the accusative mich (me); for which they are much laughed at by the rest of Germany. The first syllable of course alludes to the sandy plain in which Berlin stands.—Transl.