<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 24 May 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.05.23 (08) [E]</span><br><p><font size="4"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS">Mike Wintzer wrote: I think (Ron to confirm) that Uelzen and Uetersen have nothing to do with
<font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">Umlaut.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">re umlaut / and 'e'<br><br>I was under the
impression that the 'e' added to the vowel was the alternative to the
umlaut and that the latter only came into full force with the Spelling
reform of the early 19th century which also saw off 'th' for 't'.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hence Goethe still wrote his name like that; I
used to have a mid 19th c print with a bookshelf in the background that
had a volume by 'Göte" - the only time I have ever seen it written with
the (then) Neue Rechtschreibung.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Names of people and places are notoriously
conservative so you still find Hochhuth or Rothenberg or - and this
is the one the world still mispronounces - Neanderthal</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I used to get my pupils to scan the credits of american films to see how many OLD German spellings they could see as surnames.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">As English typewriters/ telecasters didn't have
umlauts it was always the practice the add the 'e' : so Muenchen is how
it would be spelt in the football results.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">So if a town still uses the 'e' it is just following the example of Goethe - which isn't a bad example to follow!</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heather</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">PS why not "Lowlandloper" which admittedly is a
hybrid but then -hey- why not be creative! 'Lope' in English has such a
lovely laid back connotation - easy travel with a mind to pleasure
rather than purpose - isn't that what you're after?</p><br>