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Re: Is it NeanderTHals or NeanderTals??Geoffrey Watson (gwat@cs.uq.oz.au)7 Dec 1994 00:33:01 GMT
ehp@ear.co.at (Ewald Pfau) writes:
> MRB> I grew up with the term 'Neanderthal', but lately I seen
> MRB> Well, which is it?
>German writing has changed in the course of about 100 years. In old
>It is understood, but in active writing in everyday sense, "Tal" is used
>In reading it gives (just) a bit of that notion, "take time to pronounce
>In living at a place of which the name ends on "Tal", I am quite often
>So you're better off to take "Neandertal" since this is not referring to
Trinkaus and Shipman discuss the spelling the spelling change in
Apparently the US adopted the modern German spelling in the 1950's but
The older German spelling is of course retained in the specific/subspecific
Hope this helps 8-)
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