[Allen Tice]

Thanks for the link, Julie. That’s a great word Roger. It looks as if it might share the “steg” root with Stegosaurus, from Greek stegos (στέγος), which means roof, and sauros (σαῦρος), which means lizard. That’s the dinosaur with those hard looking leaves on its back and a nerve ganglion near its butt as big or bigger than its brain - if I recall right. Thanks anyway. I want to keep this to words used by English speakers.

There is, of course, the famous German Oberweserdampfschifffahrtgesellschaftskapitan, which has a jolly song that uses it. It means the “upper Weser steamboat excursion company captain.” I hope I got that one right except for the captain’s umlauts which are too much trouble at midnight in New York.

PS: just checked, one umlaut on final a. Back to English, my mother tongue.