not your senorita wrote: Our German friends, however, chose to call their aeroplanes "MESSERSCHMITT" which means "Mister Smith". I rest my case.>>> i think that someone already pointed out that "das Messer" means "the knife" but i have to point out that i have never, ever heard anyone refer to "ein Flugzeug" (airplane : literally translated : flying thing) as anything but "Flugzeug." sorry to rain on the parade. it might be that i live in the south and the bavarians don't use that word, but when i lived in frankfurt i didn't hear that either. the closest thing to Messerschmitt that i can think of is Messerschnitt. which means "knife slice." ng _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+