Wilhelm Spickermann (Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de) wrote:

: On 12-Feb-01 Howard W. LUDWIG wrote:
: ...
: > Items like "kg" are referred to in English as symbols, not as names.
: > Do German physicists use different terminology?

:  I�ve
: studied physics but I have to confess that I don�t remember how I used
: these words before I became a programmer.

Pretty much my experience, too.  Sorry if I confused things. 
But indeed there seems to be evidence that the terminology
is not different, in the word "Einheiten-Symbol"
(Einheit = unit).

(However, if you go to the good old market (to by vegetables
and things) you will encounter all sorts of spellings of unit
symbols and names. :-)

Georg Bauhaus