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Re: Star name change
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Mar 30, 12:52 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Mar 30, 12:52 -0500
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.
