Deutsches Wort des Tages

Der Schnürsenkel = shoelace

I'm pretty sure Schnürsenkel is related to the German word Schnur, which you will all remember is mentioned in the first half Kierkegaard's "Either/Or" in which the author says his life is just like the word, which means both a piece of string and a daughter-in-law. The only difference, he says, between his life and the word Schnur, is that it should also have the third and fourth meanings of a camel and a dust brush.

I learned this word because my Schnürsenkel broke and, five pairs later, I finally have a pair of the right length.