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> >
> > How dare you say Neanderthal!
> >
> > That's Neandertal.
> >
> > Greg Bear spells it Neandertal.
> >
> > Robert J. Sawyer spells it Neanderthal.
"Tal" is German for valley. It used to be spelled "Thal",
and that's preserved in some place names. So either should be
fine, but Julia's right, one should say "tal".
It's like L'Hospital, the French mathematician. Current
texts spell his name using the "o with a hat over it" instead of
an "os". This is certainly easier on the students, since one
does not say the "s". On the other hand, HE spelled it with the
"os". So both are right, in various ways.
---David
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