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From: Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann)
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Subject: SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:54:36 +0100 (CET)
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On 12-Feb-01 The Ludwig Family wrote:
> First, in reply to the comment amount German names of units, if they 
> supposedly (as claimed below) do not behave like other nouns and
> always 
> begin with a capital letter, then why does the
> Physikalisch-Technische 
> Bundesanstalt (the German equivalent of the American National
> Institute 
> of Standards and Technology) use the spellings Meter, Kilogramm, 
> Sekunde, Ampere, Kelvin, Mol, and so on in the middle of sentences? 
...

You and Georg Bauhaus are talking about different "names":

"Kilogramm" is a german noun and has to have an upper case "K". So You
are right (and Dmitry was wrong).

"kg" has to have a lower case "k". So Georg Bauhaus is right.

Wilhelm