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

As to the assertion that it's only Americans, I just took a minute to
search the UK Drinks forum for Reidel and Reisling, lots of hits from
each (I checked to make sure not all from interloping Americans, the
first hit for Reidel was from Sussex and for Reisling Essex).