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- From: sn@phoenix.oulu.fi (Sami Nieminen)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
- Subject: Von Junzt - spelling question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.101953.26482@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:19:53 GMT
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- Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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- Although this notorious name is clearly German-based, I'm not quite
- sure if it's an actual German name. According to my own (rather hazy)
- knowledge of German, words like that are usually spelled with the 't'
- before the 'z' (as in 'schwartz'). So, I think that the right form
- would be 'von Juntz'. Are there any native Germans out there who could
- say which, if either, form is correct ?
- I know that the name was made up by Robert E. Howard (author of
- Conan), so he might not have been very precise on right form of
- spelling.
-
- ---sn@phoenix.oulu.fi
-
- P.S. Chaosium also spells the name of his book wrong. It's
- 'Unaussprechlichen Kulten', with two 's':s in the middle, not
- 'Unausprechlichen'. (That I am sure of, it's so elementary [or...?]).
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