If you don't speak German — and indeed if you do — here is Austria's word of the year, adding to the challenges of reading and speaking the language.
It's ``Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung,'' or ``postponement of the repeat of the runoff of the presidential election.''
The tongue-twister was born of the record time it took to elect Austria's president, and was announced following a poll of 10,000 people carried out by the Research Unit for Austrian German at the University of Graz, in co-operation with the Austria Press Agency.
A first round in April was followed by a May runoff between the two most popular candidates.
This was annulled because of irregularities.
A new date set for October was then postponed because of faulty absentee ballots to Dec. 4, when the vote was won by Alexander Van der Bellen.