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From: Walt Vogdes
Remote Name: 68.116.20.113
Date: 03/03/2004
Time: 06:24:39 PM
The German term is a compound of two words, Krug, meaning vessel, and Walzen, meaning cylindrical. "Krug" does not directly translate to stein, as the word is also used for pitchers. Even so, we know that a Walzenkrug is a cylindrical stein, and that is the most precise English term that can be used. Of course, most Americans won't have much appreciation of the term, thinking you just mean a stein. In Germany it actually implies a period when such steins were the standard form.