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Old 27th Dec 2009, 10:02 pm   #33
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Default Re: Army Field Telephones and Compatibility?

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Originally Posted by russell_w_b View Post

... German 1930s 'Feldspracher' (spelling?)...
I think that's right. My recollections of schoolboy German suggests that Feld means "field" and Spracher (with, more correctly, an umlaut over the 'a') means "speaker", hence Feldsprecher means a field telephone rather than a Fernsprecher ("distance-speaker") which is a normal telephone.

German has a wonderful logic when it comes to making up new words for newly-invented bits of equipment. In the excellent Winter 2009 BVWS Bulletin there is mention of the well-named Farbfernsehgerat (colour distance vision apparatus)...
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