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Subject: Klodz - Klotz
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:21:51 EST

It appears that Klodz is Low German, Niederdeutsch, (to the north) and Klotz
is High German, Hochdeutsch (to the south). Klotz (according to Bahlow) is
also Klötzel (Kloetzel); clumsy, crude person, see Kloth. In America a clutz, I
suppose. In German the letters d, t, dt and th sound the same, at least to
our ears, so you are likely talking about the same name with regional spelling
differences - or evolutions. Or migrations.

T. Maureen Schoenky (SCGS in California)

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