TL> Perhaps you overlooked Steven's statement that the Bern spelling may be
 TL> attributed to the English or French over 100 years ago?

   If that were the case, the name would appear in any decent dictionary,
but it doesn't. At least not in any I have. In fact, every time I have the
erroneous spelling in any of my writings, I have to override Mozilla's
internal spell checker to make it pass.


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