The distinguished German move actor ...

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/7/2007 07:26 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>I'm not sure what you mean by  "three spellings of his first name" -- is
>this by name or by reference, i.e., are you referring to spellings of
>the first name of the actor in question, or to spellings of the name
>"Curd"? If the latter, in German, "Kurt" would be commonest, with "Curt"
>second, but both "Curd" and "Kurd" exist, which brings us to four.
>Pronunciation is identical anyway in most dialects (see Auslautverhärtung).

It seems he used, or people used for him, three
spellings - Curd, Curt, and Kurt.  I didn't see Kurd off-hand.

Joel

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