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Re: Star name change
From: Zvi Doron
Date: 2005 Mar 30, 20:34 +0100

Soon poor Alkaid willhave to  go as well with Al Kaida and all that...

----- Original Message -----
From: Jared Sherman 
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Sent: 30 March 2005 18:52
Subject: Re: Star name change


> Just a though, but after WW1 and again WW2, many german names and phrases
> were replaced in the Anglo west. I know, the names aren't German but
> anything that ends in "nachst" or "nasch" might be mistaken for German and
> intentionally put out of use in favor of anything else.
>
> Kaiser Bun (seeded bun), Berliner (jelly donut), Bismark (bear claw),
> frankfurter (hot dog)....there's a long list of them in the US. Somehow
> "hamburger" survives. I would expect that air/sea navigators, given the
> choice to use any name that sounded "less German", would have done so
after
> WW2.

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