Keith Briggs wrote:
> I hesitate to add to the mailstorm I seem to have started, but it's
> perhaps worth noting that if we don't want to confuse
> distinct places like Grünbach and Grunbach, we should not anglicise
> by omitting umlauts.
I thought there was a concerted attempt to get us to not insert an 'e' if
umlauts were not available? So that Hermann Göring becomes Goring (as he
was an Oscar Wilde character), rather than Goering. I had a vague notion
that this had German official backing.
John Briggs
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