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From the news:
VIENNA—Austria’s politics are coming unstuck. Or more precisely, unglued.
Special envelopes designed to hold mail-in ballots for the Oct. 2 runoff presidential election are rimmed with a glue that should seal them tight. But it is mysteriously malfunctioning, and that has provoked a crisis, which in the words of one TV anchor is leading to a “Bundespräsidentenwiederholungswahlverschiebung”—the postponement of the rerun of the presidential election.
 
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This might help! Big Grin (And it's a short name!)
 
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That would have been the perfect Bluffing Game word!
 
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Bund - federal government
Präsident - president
Wiederholung - repeat (wieder: again, holen: to get)
Wahl: election
Verschiebung: deferral (cognate with "shove")
 
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Is that a German word? When I was in Vienna, most people spoke German. The way the words are put together, it is similar to German.
 
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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Is that a German word?


Yes


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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