[OSM-talk] Street Name

[John F. Eldredge]

On 06/01/2014 01:56 AM, malenki wrote:
> On  30.05.2014 16:27, Alan McConchie wrote:
>
>> Leavenworth is a former logging town that has been turned into a mock
>> Bavarian village as a tourist attraction. So I'm not surprised that
>> they are adding "Weg" to their streets to seem more Germanic.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington
> If they want to have the street and its name even more and real German,
> they should name it "Edelweißweg" since Edelweiß in German is written
> with "ß"¹, in composed German words no white spaces are used –
> and Germans are usually great nitpickers in criticizing such trivia. :)
>
> Thomas
>
> ¹ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiß_(Gattung)
However, if they did so, most English-speakers would probably pronounce 
it "Eidelwebweg", since English lacks that character.

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