Hi Grant
I've downloaded the spreadsheet. Two observations...
1. It's very English-biased in that the items are sorted alphabetically by the English word. So a German speaker wanting the French word for 'Gaszug' would have to read all the way down to row 138 (throttle cable) to find the French 'cable d'accelerateur'.
I did try to sort the spreadsheet alphabetically by German but encountered an Excel error, 'All merged cells must be the same size'. I couldn't work out what was causing this.
I might be biased but I think my way of grouping like items together (all 'wheel' items, then all 'tyre/tube' items, etc) is easier to navigate.
2. There are some weird colonial English expressions. I couldn't find 'brake disk', but there's an entry for 'rotor'. Similarly 'turn signal' instead of 'indicator'.
The solution mentioned above of grouping like items together would get around this.
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