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Date:
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 00:40:19 +0000
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Re: What's in a Name?
From:
Ulvi Yurtsever <[log in to unmask]>
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Felix Delbrueck wrote:

>Beet-hoven without any doubt.  van Beethoven is a Dutch name, not a German
>one, and I don't think you get the th in Dutch as you do in old-fashioned
>German (as in 'Reichsrath'='Reichsrat').  Also, in German the name is
>definitely pronounced 'Beet-hoven'.

I thought beethoven means, literally, "beet field." Am I wrong?

Ulvi Yurtsever
MathSense Research and Consulting
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