Hi James,
Derek Logan wrote:
- When Rontgen discovered a new kind of light, he called it
"x-rays". Now only the Germans call them Rontgen rays.
Thanks for a great essay! Since I have nothing of real value
contribute here, I won't pass over the opportunity to be a
"besserwisser" (as the Swedes say, using a borrowed word...) the
Röntgen moniker has stuck here in northern Europe too: in Swedish:
Röntgenstrålning, in Danish and Norwegian: Røntgenstråling, in Dutch:
Röntgenstraling. Also thanks to Wikipedia, I can inform you that it's
called Röntgengeislun in Icelandic and Röntgensäteily in Finnish.
Eastern Europe seems to have adopted various forms based on "Rentgen",
but I won't pretend I knew that before 5 minutes ago ;-)
Interestingly enough, even though the Dutch say Röntgenstralen, the
Flemish (100 miles more to the south) say X-stralen.
Bram
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