> ---------- > From: Ronn!Blankenship[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion > Sent: Montag, 23. Juni 2003 12:10 > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Neanderthal Question ... > > At 11:21 PM 6/22/03 -0400, David Hobby 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". > ...
As far as I know ... the location meanwhile is spelled Neandertal but when the bones were found, it was spelled Neanderthal (that was some time ago) and it is general use that names of species/races are never changed in spelling so those people are still correctly spelled "Homo neanderthalensis". Some information on the place can be found at: http://www.neanderthal.de/e_thal/pg_30.htm http://www.google.de/search?q=%22Homo+neanderthalensis%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=d e&meta= gives 3900 hits http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Homo+neandertalensis%22 &meta= gives 584 hits which is what I expected. Funny enough: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Neandertal+&meta= gives 25100 hits http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Neanderthal+&meta= gives 64200 hits Regards Armin Freiberg _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
