Lisa Davey (asker) Feb 1, 2006:

@Stephen: You will be relieved to know that the job was returned with "bottleneck" spelled correctly ;). My earlier comment to Cilian was replying to his query about missing something. He pointed out that the correct German word for "bottleneck" is "Engpa�" - my reason for posting the query in the first place (i.e. was it a back translation - or did it mean something else in the sense that Kenneth has suggested). I hope this long explanation goes part way to clarifying the situation..yeah, yeah, clear as mud, I know! ;)

Stephen Sadie Jan 31, 2006:

@lisa: even if my name isn't cilian (!)...it seems highly evident that this was originally bottleneck (please write as one word)..HTH Stephen

Lisa Davey (asker) Jan 31, 2006:

@ Cilian. I wasn't sure if I was missing something. It just seemed slightly odd, so I thought I'd ask! "Bottle neck" was my first thought, but I wondered if it might have some other meaning I wasn't aware of.

Tradesca (X) Jan 31, 2006:

Definitiv kein gel�ufiger Ausdruck im Deutschen. Kann sich h�chstens auf einen konkreten Platz in der Firma beziehen, der wegen seiner Enge so genannt wird.