Re: OT: Dvorak
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 21:02 |
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:44 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> I am curious: where does the name/term Dvorak come from? The famous composer
> (and if so, why?) or someone else????
Someone else. Namely, the man who developed the eponymous keyboard
arrangement, Dr. August Dvorak - an American. Note that his name and
that of the keyboard is /'dvO`r\&k/, with a regular AmEng /r\/, not ..
whatever the heck the CXS is for the Czech ř sound, or the Anglicized
approximation /rZ/.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>