Respelling a city name in an English way

[Tom Zurinskas]

But what is the best English spelling?  BBC text spelling has "aa" as its standard for the "ah" sound.

from

http://www.cphpost.dk/component/content/48499.html?task=view

Supporters of eliminating the Danish spelling of Århus believe the ‘Å’ is a hindrance in international communication



Denmark’s second largest city has an identity complex with its name that its current mayor has decided to try to solve.

Århus mayor Nikolaj Wammen is tired of the difficulties the Scandinavian letter ‘Å’ causes when dealing with the international community and wants the city’s name to return to its original spelling of ‘Aarhus’.

‘The world has changed a lot since 1948,’ he said. ‘No one at that time could have imagined the internationalisation we’ve experienced, the internet’s development or digitalisation.’

Per legislation passed in 1948, the letter ‘Å’ was officially made part of the Danish alphabet in 1955, initiated as a substitute for the aa diphthong. The pronunciation of the letter can be described as a sound roughly somewhere between ‘ah’ and ‘oh’, and it is the last letter in the Danish alphabet.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling



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