On 2/16/10 5:50 AM, Michael Pronay wrote:
> > wrote:
>
>>>> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".
>
>>> Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".
>>>
>>> But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among
>>> native English speakers (is that correct?).
>
>> Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)
>
> Ooops - sorry, didn't realize that!
>
>> Those of us who speak / write proper English have no such
>> problem.
>
> I beg your pardon, I stand corrected.
>
> M.

Michael,
I've always found the ie/ei transposition baffling, myself. Students
of English usually are drilled with the rubric: "i before e except after
c" because ie is in fact more common than ei.

Oh, well...
Mark Lipton

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