[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Ångström

Wed Nov 20 21:52:45 UTC 2002

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.

-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org
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