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<DIV><SPAN class=606550923-20112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Actually, neither "angstrom" nor "nanometer" are in common use. Hardly
anyone talks or writes about things small enough to require such terms, except
scientists and some engineers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=606550923-20112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
term "angstrom" will likely hang around at least for another generation, in the
technical community.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=606550923-20112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=606550923-20112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>But
even a rare word, in an English-language encyclopedia, should be rendered
according to the naming convention: when used as a unit of measure, the accents
are dropped. When referring to the 19th-century Swedish physicist, the accents
are retained. Fair enough?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=606550923-20112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ed
Poor</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Vicki Rosenzweig
[mailto:vr@redbird.org]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:53
PM<BR><B>To:</B> wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Wikipedia-l]
Re: [Wikipedia-l] Ångström<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>At 01:31 PM 11/20/02 -0800,
Bridget wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Angstrom, being a word not in
common usage at all, should be written Ångström, in honor of <B>Anders Jonas
Ångström, </B>who was smarter than many of you and thus knew how to spell
his own name. </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Angstrom is part of my everyday vocabulary, and
that of many other people.<BR>As a personal name, it takes a diacritic not
available in English; as a term of<BR>art in the metric system, it does not.
Being so smart, you know this already.<BR><BR>
<DIV>-- </DIV>
<DIV>Vicki Rosenzweig</DIV>
<DIV>vr@redbird.org</DIV>
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