--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> > >
> > > How dare you say Neanderthal!
> > >
> > > That's Neandertal.
> > >
> > > Greg Bear spells it Neandertal.
> > >
> > > Robert J. Sawyer spells it Neanderthal.
>
> "Tal" is German for valley. It used to be spelled "Thal",
> and that's preserved in some place names. So either should be
> fine, but Julia's right, one should say "tal".
> It's like L'Hospital, the French mathematician. Current
> texts spell his name using the "o with a hat over it" instead of
> an "os". This is certainly easier on the students, since one
> does not say the "s". On the other hand, HE spelled it with the
> "os". So both are right, in various ways.
>
Uh> to me it's like your arguing over what shade of brown.....dirt is.
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