Monday, January 19, 2009

Word of the day

Philips screwdriver = Kreuzschlitzschraubendreher
Unfortunately the Germans are far too fond of making very large words.
Follow-up: upon discussing this with a colleague, it turns out that Schraubendreher is an old fogey word - the actual word is Kreuzschlitzschraubendzieher - not much easier...

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