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Or just spell it Haendel. Though I've found that's a losing battle with the English world.

• rob74 4y ago
  Then you have an ambiguity between names where the Umlaut is replaced with "ae"/"oe"/"ue" (Haendel) and names that are actually written with "ae"/"oe"/"ue" (Goethe)...
  • eru 4y ago
    Yes, but nonetheless that's the official rule for German.
  • beeforpork 4y ago
    There is nothing ambiguous about it, because it's the same pronunciation. It's a convention of how this particular name is spelled. But does German have ambiguities here? Yes, it does. In the instrument 'Oboe', the 'oe' is pronounced as two syllables: long 'o' plus schwa. It cannot be written with 'ö'. It should better be written 'Obohe' (my controversial proposal). And dialectally/regionally, 'oe' may be long 'o' instead of the 'ö' sound, like in the city of 'Soest', which could be written 'Sohst', but then people from that city would complain (about tradition, maybe).
    • nominusllc 4y ago
      there is no schwa in oboe, its oh-bow not oh-bow-uh ō′bō <-- see? From the American Heritage Dictionary 5th-ed. A schwa is the upside down 'e' which is not present.
      • School-Cotton 4y ago
        They were talking about the German word, not the English one. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oboe#German https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oboe#German