Guttenberg resigning his post.

While its specific reference to the internet seems to stray from its primarily American-English origins, the term was crowned as “Anglicism of the year” last year in an annual contest organised by a linguist at the University of Hamburg.

The competition recognises the fact that technological advances and new media, combined with the cultural significance of the US, mean English words often end up plugging gaps where German falls short.

In the case of “s***storm”, it was generally felt that the nearest established equivalents, such as “Kritik” (criticism), were simply not descriptive enough.

The inaugural winner of the award in 2010 was “leaken”, which was adopted wholeheartedly by the German media and public in the wake of the Wikileaks scandal.

Belfast TelegraphOur last digger dies at 107

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Peter Casserly as an exhausted veteran after leading the Anzac Day
parade in Perth this year.Photo: Megan Powell

Peter Casserly, Australia's last survivor of the Western Front
in World War I, died yesterday. Aged 107, he was also believed to
be the oldest Australian male.

Despite having served on the Somme, his main claim to fame may
have been the longevity of his marriage. Peter and Monica Casserly
had been married for 80 years and 10 months when she died at 102 in
2004.

"The passing time never changed the loveliness of my wife for
me," he said recently. "She remained a beautiful blessing
throughout our long marriage."

Mr Casserly died in a nursing home in Perth. His family said he
could have lived longer if he had not fallen out of bed a week