Fwd: Re: wedding rings

[H.P.Houtzagers]

> I just asked a woman I work with who is German, and she said that in
> Germany they wear the rings on their left hands while engaged, and switch
> them over to the right hand once married.  I wonder if that has anything
> to do with it?
>
> Glyn Komkai
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> Glyn E. A. Komkai                               fngek at aurora.alaska.edu
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Dutch protestants do the same thing. Dutch Roman Catholics, however,
wear their wedding ring on the left hand. On which hand they wear it
while engaged I don't know.

Peter Houtzagers
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