Russell McMahon wrote:
> For our poor deprived US friends.

We're OK, not to worry ;-)

> By all means discuss how long it took, whether you got it, what caused
> you to realise what it was etc.

It took about 5 seconds.  Definitely less time than finding the windows
clock and positioning it on the screen so that I could start at a known
time.  I looked at each word in sequence and apparently thought about each
for about a second, but knew the answer as soon as I saw WINDER.  Then a
quick check back to make sure it fit with the other 4 words.  Actually I'm
not so sure about xxxxREAL, but that seems a lot less dubious than POSTBAG
for example.  I haven't looked it up so see if my xxxxREAL is really a word.

There is another prefix I was thinking of before seeing WINDER that may in
fact be the "correct" one.  The problem is that xxxxARM is probably a word,
but would be specialized to a particular discipline or piece of equipment.
I'm not sure that makes it a real word, just an obvious concatenation used
by those working in the specialty.  Similarly, the alternate xxxxSTEP sounds
like it fits in this catagory too.

> Even I think for the actually german but
> essentially yankees :-).

I assume that was in reference to me?  All I said was that german is
technically my first language.  You seem to have made an incorrect
conclusion from that about my nationality.  For the record, I was born in
California.  I am and have always been a US citizen.  I have been outside
the US for only a few months total on vacation and the like.  I have been to
Germany only once for about a week in the late 1990s.


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