From The Wrap:

THE BEAUTY OF BELONGINGS

Die Libelle, or the dragonfly, was a runner-up, and so was Rhabarber-Marmelade (rhubarb jam), but the most beautiful German word was yesterday declared to be Habseligskeiten, "belongings, or bits and pieces".

Nearly 23,000 people nominated their favourite words, including Geborgenheit (a sense of security) and Augenblick (moment or blink of an eye), but Habseligskeiten won, the Times reports, because it can evoke "the kind of possessions collected by a six-year-old which he joyfully displays when he turns out his pockets" or even "the few belongings of someone who has lost his home and has to transport them to wherever there is shelter".

• Germans find beauty in small things
  (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1328697,00.html)