On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Chuck Cole wrote: > Check the web and correct those sources. This is not my invention: I > used several web references to refresh my memories from German and > linguistics. This is prevalent, if not entirely precise and accurate. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006_December_11 But does that article support what you wrote, or what Munir Nassar wrote? I think it supports him more than you. Your article says this, among other things: I've never heard of that word, and the German Panzer article has nothing about it. Google's search results make me believe it's just a joke by someone who wanted to invent a funny German word for tank. I agree; it seems absurdly complicated Pre WWII german tank AV7 is referred to as Sturmpanzerwagen, or Schwerer Kampfwagen in pages I have found. Can't discount the above long name though. Other people report remembering learning the word as children, but so what? What does that tell me except that the long word is probably some kind of joke played on children, sometimes by their German teachers? When I was a kid, we used to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but it was never a real word. It's in Wikipedia, though: According to the 1964 Walt Disney film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say". Mike