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?
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