On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Frank da Cruz wrote: > > By the way, the German phrase is mine. I seem to have discovered a German > word (the name of a town, �echtringen) that has an acute accent. It's > listed in the Postleitzahlenbuch: > > http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/misc/oechtringen.jpg > > I don't know if it's a mistake or what, but it's definitely a curiosity! > My initial theory is that maybe it's a contraction for Ober-Echtringen?
Just a wild guess: isn't the acute accent used to indicate that Oe does not form a digraph �, but is to be pronounced separately? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
