Arwel Parry wrote:
Correcting you just to be pedantic, but in English the Adolf/Adolph distinction seems to be a transatlantic thing. I have never seen "Adolph" used in any document originating in the UK.
I find quite a few, actually:
http://www.olympicwomen.co.uk/Berline.htm for example.
You can find a lot more here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&am...
From looking at this, it seems that OSS spelled it 'Adolph' in some
official document(s) way back when, and so I don't think we can treat this as just a simple misspelling by random Internet idiots, but rather a variant spelling. It'd be interesting to have solid information on the variant spelling.
Also, a search on Amazon reveals some books with the title spelled 'Adolph', as well, see for example: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393056821/qid=1068731574
(published by W. W. Norton, so it's an actual book).
--Jimbo