There's an old, old story about a little guy who was sitting in a restaurant when a big bully came in. The bully walked over to the little guy, grabbed him forcefully and threw him over his shoulder. "That's Judo," he said, "Picked it up in Japan." Next he hit him square on the back of the neck. "That's karate. Picked it up in Korea." The little guy squirmed away from the bully and went out to his truck. When he came back in, he went right up to the bully and cracked him over the head. "That's crowbar," he said. "Picked it up at Sears."

Today Translations, a British company, conducted a worldwide poll of language translators to discover the top ten hardest words to translate from their native language. After the votes were tallied, it was agreed that the hardest word to translate is found…