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Spelling a German umlaut with the letter e is etymologically correct, and it is a convention well known to Germans and to German-speakers in the non-German-spea
by tokenadult 12y ago
Spelling a German umlaut with the letter e is etymologically correct, and it is a convention well known to Germans and to German-speakers in the non-German-speaking world. Most of the news reporting about the German national team to the World Cup reported the names of the players with that kind of alternative spelling, for example "Götze" as "Goetze" and "Özil" as "Oezil."
- junto 12y agoI'm aware of this. As an English speaker in Germany this is my GOTO preference for my US keyboard when writing in German. I was just puzzled as to why such a large internet property chooses not to use them, or more likely, can't.