https://highjewellerydream.com/the-unveiling-of-the-habsburg...
It's the House of Habsburg, not Hapsburg.
Or that chap here who insists on using 5 digit years.
But some go missed. My personal favourite is that I prefer to fully close clauses within quotations.
> The President said, “I will never bomb the moon!”.
I'd think this is just because of how final obstruent devoicing works in German, to me it just seems like the obvious natural way to pronounce the word.
https://youtu.be/9-BBgc_uBZQ?t=1m11s
Seems to be there tho just very subtle
EDIT: it's why GP is not "steffi1977" XD
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hapsburg%2CHab...
Vs
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hapsburg%2CHab...
US
(In my head NYT is an anachronism from the 60s but I've a feeling the editors would be more than fine with that characterization)
https://www.museumaargau.ch/en/habsburg-castle
(Winter hours apply?)
There's a middle German word hap (ford) which could make the NYT correct in 1100 :)
It's on par with spelling Koeln Cologne imho pity those guys
Also, according to historians, the name probably stems from "Habesburg" (haben = have in English).
There's also a myth that it stems from Habicht (Eurasian goshawk), but that is likely just that, a myth.
In either case, the castle was never spelled with a p, even in the middle ages. So there's no way to spin this spelling into something that makes sense. It's just wrong.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_(Burg)#Geschichte
If I really have to push the theory, it would be an old high German form of Haupt (referring to an cowshead), since a hill can be head-shaped :)
Otoh I would not go against the word of someone who has probably seen the medieval docs
Edit: de.wiki link you gave mentions the ford
Wahrscheinlich ist der Name der Burg vom althochdeutschen Wort hab oder haw abgeleitet, das «Flussübergang» bedeutet. Damit ist eine Furt bei Altenburg gemeint
Oh you’re right. But that's spelled "hab" as well, still no p in sight ;)
Lost to wider society? Yea, I can buy that but it's a stretch.
It's not "lost" the way a medieval triptych hanging in an alms house for centuries and found to be worth millions is a "lost masterpiece" or works coming out of safe deposit boxes where some GI has hoarded loot after ww2. The titular holders decided to put a time lock on their deposit box but had clear title to the assets.
I get the historical significance but they don’t look good to me. Like Sue the T Rex looks cool from a distance but up close she’s got all these holes in her skull from parasites. Awful! I appreciate the beast’s skeleton for its significance but her skull is a horrid thing close up aesthetically.
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