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> don't know where the i [in Hamelin] comes from in the English transliteration Could just be that it’s a very inconvenient consonant cluster (and and a speake
by mananaysiempre 1y ago
> don't know where the i [in Hamelin] comes from in the English transliteration
Could just be that it’s a very inconvenient consonant cluster (and and a speaker of modern English will to some degree turn it into a [lən] or [lɪn], however you spell it).
- throwaway173738 1y agoI’m an English speaker and when I saw it written “Hameln” I thought it was a typo.
- emmelaich 1y agoIt comes from the same place as the i in Munich.