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[Arie Altena]

On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> Bonnie Surfus writes:
> 
> > I don't know, Craig.  Pynchon may have altered the spelling, but German
> > "schon" is "beautiful" (eng), which seems to make sense(?) for that
> > character.
> 
> Or rather, schoen is the English spelling of the German word scho"n
> (that's with an umlaut over the o). I believe shoe is `schuh'. So,
> Schoenmaker is indeed he who makes beautiful.
> 

This is true, but schoenmaker is also the Dutch word for shoe-maker,

Arie Altena
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