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Re: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
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  • Subject: Re: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
  • From: Mark Smith <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:28:17 +0200

Dennis W. Manasco wrote:

>I am almost certain that my college German
>professor (who was ancient when I took the class
>in the '70s) referred to the character as a
>blaustaff (my spelling may be off: she pronounced
>it as "blauw-staff, where the "auw" was
>pronounced like the "ow" in cow).
>
>Could Mark or a native German speaker comment on this?

I can only comment that I haven't heard of that either. I'm not a German or even a German scholar, I've just lived here for a long(ish) time. My wife was previously a German teacher and she hasn't heard of Ringel S, blaustaff or esset either. I'll ask around.

mark.
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