igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
Igenlode Wordsmith ([personal profile] igenlode) wrote in [personal profile] watervole 2021-11-15 03:09 am (UTC)

'ie' versus 'ei' -- tends to be a very important distinction in German, and very frequently confused as interchangeable by English-speakers :-(

(Hence all the references to Professor 'Tolkein'... whose family were, I believe, originally Tollkühns)

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