From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 03:37:55 EST
From: "Radovan Garabik" <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>
> 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?
This "acute" really looks like a printing error to me, not like a real
acute. But if you were to pronounce o-e distnictly (which I don't think is
the case here), you'd use the e-tréma sign: Oëchtringen. There is a German
comedian whose last name is written "Hoëcker" since it is pronounced
"ho-eck-er" rather than "höck-er".
Adam
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