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RE: Audi: company history

To: "Titus, Brian (NJAOST)" <BTitus@njaost.ml.com>, quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject: RE: Audi: company history
From: "Douglas Hurst Quebbeman" <dougq@iglou.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:32:44 +0000
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> I believe "to listen" in German is "zuhoeren" (oe = umlauted o). I don't
> know if any conjugated form of it ends up as "Horch"

Just a guess, but perhaps the name Horch has roots in
either Middle High German or Plattdeutsch (also known
as Low German, and the mother tongue of the Quebbeman 
family 150 years ago). 

hth,
doug q
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- RE: Audi: company history
  - From: "Titus, Brian (NJAOST)" <BTitus@njaost.ml.com>

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