For working magic tricks like pulling rabbits out of hats and European nations out of debt, Germans say "Sim Sala Bim" instead of "Abracadabra". I'm not about to tread into this etymological rat's nest complete with Olde English references in order to figure out exactly where and why Northern Europeans tend to one and not the other, so let's just agree that Germans do it different.
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