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Can’t anybody spell Düsseldorf (Duesseldorf)?

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Right now there are three threads under “Germany” referring to “Dusseldorf”. That spelling is incorrect. Düsseldorf is NOT spelled with a ‘u’. ‘u’ is NOT ‘ü’. Those two dots (umlaut) over the u are not ornaments. ‘ü’ is a different letter than ‘u’. It’s pronounced differently from ‘u’. In German, ‘u’ is pronounced, similarly to English, with the lips rounded and the tongue back in the mouth. ‘ü’ is pronounced with the lips rounded and the tongue forward. It sounds more like an ‘i’ (English ‘i’) than a ‘u’.

Don’t ignore the umlaut. If you cannot create the ‘ü’ on your keyboard (<alt> 0252), use ‘ue’. ‘ue’ has historical validity. ‘ü’ was originally ue in the Sütterlin handwriting.

So it’s Düsseldorf or Duesseldorf, not Dusseldorf, Würzburg or Wuerzburg, not Wurzburg, Füssen or Fuessen, not Fussen, Köln or Koeln, not Koln, etc.

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