Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö. Where would Düsseldorf be ...

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D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically. It is a common situation during a phone call ...

Germany is to revamp its phonetic alphabet to remove words added by the ... for the problematic letters is now in the hands of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).