Re: [FT]Ship Names of the Nations - WWI Austro-Hungary (Long)
From: KueckH@a...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:36:24 EST
Subject: Re: [FT]Ship Names of the Nations - WWI Austro-Hungary (Long)
Hi !!!
In einer eMail vom 18.03.99 19:25:35 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit
schreibt
devans@uneb.edu:
> Oerjan:
> ***
> > Szentistvan !
>
> Shouldn't this be two words (Szent Istvan)? IIRC "Szent" is the
Magyar
> way of spelling "Count", but I may well be wrong here. Imre?
> ***
>
> That's the way the NSL BDN is spelled; it was spelled as one word in
> what seemed a copied-direct-from-the-original. Jane's has been wrong
on
> occasion. I wish I could claim so seldom, tho'.
My (german) book gives it as: "Szent István" (I just hope this works on
your
computer)!
Tschüß !!!
Hauke