Leiwand oder leinwand?
Hi. I heard that in Austria you can say "leiward" instead of "sehr gut". But I have also seen "leinwand". So is it "leinwand", "leiwand" or both/neither? Thanks.

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This is a dialect word, and (most) dialects have no fixed spelling. So you can write it as you like - as long as people understand you.

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Commonly it's "leiwond" or "leiwaund" and it is a very frequently used term. You would hear it very often here. :-)

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Since it's a colloquial expression, it may be spelled variously as "leinwand", "leiwand", "leiwond" or even "leiwaund" (or so google tells me).
It used to be "(die) Leinwand", which originally only meant "linen" and later usually meant "screen" (as in a cinema).

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