Angstrom, being a word not in common usage at all, should be written �ngstr�m, in honor of Anders Jonas �ngstr�m, who was smarter than many of you and thus knew how to spell his own name.
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--- Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] lapollutionestsimauvaise@yahoo.com wrote:
Angstrom, being a word not in common usage at all, should be written �ngstr�m, in honor of Anders Jonas �ngstr�m, who was smarter than many of you and thus knew how to spell his own name.
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At 01:31 PM 11/20/02 -0800, Bridget wrote:
Angstrom, being a word not in common usage at all, should be written Ångström, in honor of Anders Jonas Ångström, who was smarter than many of you and thus knew how to spell his own name.
Angstrom is part of my everyday vocabulary, and that of many other people. As a personal name, it takes a diacritic not available in English; as a term of art in the metric system, it does not. Being so smart, you know this already.
Lir wrote:
Angstrom, being a word not in common usage at all, should be written Ångström, in honor of Anders Jonas Ångström, who was smarter than many of you and thus knew how to spell his own name.
Maybe the word *should* be spelled "Ångström", but it's not. I agree with you that Anders Jonas' name shouldn't be Anglicised (which in this case would involve dropping the diacritics), but the unit of measurement has been called "angstrom" since it was invented (I believe after Ander Jonas' death). Maybe the people in charge of units of measurement (le Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) shouldn't drop the diacritics, but they do. This is a common noun, and isn't analogous to "Lunik" (where I believe that you are right).
-- Toby
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