Re: Is the Reeder name English or German?
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Re: Is the Reeder name English or German?
KIM POOLE 6/23/00
I'm a German major and lived in Berlin for seven months last school year to learn the language better.Not that it makes me an expert, but...Anyway, like y'all said, there are various German names that could have been converted to Reeder, not the least of which is Reeder (plus a few umlauted names which create a sound that Americans can't categorize, so they try it as a long e or long a).Shipping companies over there are indeed called Reederei, making the ship-builders or company operators "Reeders."