On 6/15/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spencer Graves <spencer.graves <at> pdf.com> writes: > > (This may not be relevant, but Google just gave me 788,000 hits for > > "moebius" and 750,000 for "mobius".) Perhaps one of our German > > contributors could tell us which they prefer. > > As you asked for it: The former is correct, and the second is a misspelling. > So > there is no choice but simply "right" and "wrong". > > The only alternative to the full '8-bit' spelling with an Umlaut is the > 'transcribed 7-bit' form of replacing the 'two dots over the vowel' with an > 'appended e after the vowel'. As in Maechler, or in the From: field above. > > The problem is that most of the world simply drops the dots: E.g. the > comparison > of 'Wolfgang Hardle' and 'Wolfgang Haerdle' at scholar.google.com shows that > the > correct form is (barely) leading with a narrow 227 to 220. My PhD > dissertation
www.googlefight.com gives roughly 500 to 5000 in favor of "Wolfgang Haerdle". ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
