13-10-2020, 09:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 13-10-2020, 10:00 AM by Koen G.
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(13-10-2020, 02:11 AM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As a result, the estuary in the center of Amsterdam, the IJ, is in the running for the world's shortest place name, since it can be written as Ÿ. (It pretty much never is, though.)
All this isn't *quite* right... It is a consequence of the lack of this character on keyboards other than the Dutch keyboard. It has become quite normal also for Dutch people, due to the widespread availability of UK and US keyboards, to type the two characters 'i' and 'j' when meaning this single character.
Foreign web pages are also struggling with this. Beside the Amsterdam IJ mentioned above, there are even two rivers called IJssel. The English wiki page for it doesn't quite get the fact that the initial letter is a single letter.
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Automated spelling correction is not a help...