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From: martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Name of the Rose
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 01:17:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 31 01:17:08 1985
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Last  time  reviews  of  the  book appeared, people commented on all the
references to Sherlock Holmes.  One was missed.  The book is supposed to
be  a  translation  of  memoirs  by  a monk Adso who comes from Germany.
Clearly this is supposed to be a Latinization of a German  name  and  is
probably  declined  Adso,  Adsonis etc.  But what is the original German
name?  If one looks at latinizations of German names of the story's time
period,  one finds initial German W is lost and German t becomes a Latin
d.  Therefore given  the  Latin  root  form  Adson(-)  one  expects  the
original German name was Watson.

Yehoyaqim Martillo