[ RadSafe ] Reactors, Windmills, and all that

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

RADSAFErs,
Please no speculations on foreign languages! "Bayer" is a rather common family name, one of my aunts acquired it through marriage, but was genuine Austrian. What you English speaking people call "Bavaria" is in German "Bayern". The "n" makes a lot of difference!

A person from Bavaria is  "ein Bayer" (or if female: "eine Bayerin"). The name is derived from a historic Germanic tribe - the Bojer. In the middle ages the Bavarians cultivated large areas in Europe, also most of nowadays Austria. 

So much my short lecture on German.....

Best regards,

Franz


---- "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe at ucdavis.edu> schrieb:
> At 11:09 PM 10/16/2011, jpreisig wrote:
> 
> >Bayer makes aspirin,  right????  Bayern is a German word for the
> >Southern part of
> >Germany known to us as Bavaria....
> ***********************************************************
> Although aspirin was invented by Felix Hoffmann in 1897, he worked at 
> that time for the Bayer company founded by Professor Adolf von Bayer, 
> his former professor and a Noble laureate.
> 
> 
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