[WikiEN-l] Adolph Hitler

Thu Nov 13 12:54:40 UTC 2003

>   The question is, whether it is an alternative spelling or simply a
>misspelling of a name, and is google the place to determine whether
>something is an alternative spelling. For instance, there are sites that
>refer to William Shakespear, even though the contemporary conventional
>form is Shakespeare.    As for Adolf/Adolf Hitler, there are two reason
>that it would be spelled with ph--1) the person spelling it is using the
>English, rather than the German, version of the name, though I can't
>really see a justification for this: we write Johann Wolfgang von
>Goethe, not John Wolfgang, and Konrad Adenauer, not Conrad (although
>admittedly, there are some instances where the English variant of a name
>is commonplace, i.e., William Tell); 2) the more likely, that the person
>either didn't know or made a mistake. I don't think we need to
>record misspellings, otherwise we can get stuck up with every variant
>typo, incl. Jospeh Goebbels.   
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If a misspelling gets 70,000 hits on Google it deserves a brief mention.

Fred