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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