From: Radovan Garabik (garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 02:22:09 EST
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, Óechtringen) 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 Ö, but is to be pronounced separately?
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