Oh, Katl, how can breasts be phallic?! I don't know enough Greek to tell you the right word (some other smartarse will, though!), but I happen to know that sine (as in trigonometry) comes from the Sanskrit word for "bosom"^*. Now there's an intersting word: both with singular and plural forms, and a collective noun as well.

Bustenhalter is one of those words that give German a bad name. I realy must learn the language one of these days. Why call something a "bra" when you can call it a, well, a "bust halter"? Why say "tank" when you can say "armoured warfare vehicle"? And what other language has a word for an attempt on the life of the aunt of a Hottentot potentate^**? And German onomatopoeia must be really something else, the way they spell!

Steve

^*Actually, I'm a leg man myself.
^** Hottentotenpotentatentantentotenattenten