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Originally Posted by Raistlin
Quite so Jürgen. 
The diacritic over the O had the effect, if I recall, of changing the sound to the untrained ear of the British serviceman to a sort of U sound hence my lazy spelling 
Do you know if there is still a Christmas market at Rheindahlen? |
Yes, they do have a Christmas market this year on 5th and 6th of December. It's called
Nikolausmarkt. But I've never been there, so I don't know whether it's worth a visit.
The ö is pronounced like the eu in the french word fleur.
BTW do you want to buy some little dots for all the ö's and ü's ...
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Originally Posted by uk_dave&gill
I know that these codes are probably internationally agreed (I do like "LAX" ) but using CGN for Köln always wrankles with me. It's not even pronounced as "kol-own" so why do they spell it that way? (OK as "Cologne" I guess it's French spelling, but either way, it's a German city so should be spelt how they spell it!)
(Great city, good market from memory, go there! Alternatively Brugge aka Bruges is, IIRC, accessible by Eurostar?)
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Maybe the airport was just to humble when these abbreviations were invented?
There's a
Weihnachtsmarkt at Cologne of course. But you'll will have to expect lots of people.