Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/30
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> > If Kamera was the way Germans used to spell the word, why a C then in the
> > Leica name? Can any of our German members help with this answer?
> >
>
> I would guess because most of the world spells Kamera as camera.
I would guess that you say most of the world speak English? :)
In Polish (eh-hem!), Czech, Latvian, Russian, Lithuanian, Belarussian,
Hungarian, Norvegian, Swedish, German, Greek.. - to name a few -
letter "k" is spoken as 'k', like in camera :)
But I suppose that in the times just before IIww, English language
was indeed very popular - not because America, which was still in
its infancy - spoken it, but because Great Britain, a empire on
a weak legs, spreaded English language everywhere. In those times,
_the_ language of haute couture was still French, which reigned
for some centuries.. :)
> > When the Leica was first introduced the ads said; 'Leica Kamera' in Germany.
> > Now if the name Leica comes from LEItz & CAmera why wasn't 'Leica' spelled
> > 'Leika'?
BTW: do you remember what was the name of first dog in space, sent by Russians
some decases ago? :)
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