[quarterwave]

Several languages use compound nouns, proper and common. These cause pronunciation problems when the phrase is read atomically, instead of by parsing. For example, German armbunduhr is easily understood as arm+bund+uhr = clock around arm, or wrist watch. Since I speak languages that also build up compound nouns (e.g; chair = four+legs), I have no trouble recognizing the need to parse in other languages.

[koesterd]

It's Armbanduhr, though. So it's more like Armband (wristband) and Uhr (clock). But your solution is at least equally clever! I never thought of that.