Mr. Rüssing, can you spell your name according to the new rules?
Uff, yes, moments: Regensburg, vowel-U, Ziegburg, Ziegburg, Iserlohn, Nuremberg, Görlitz.
Why Siegburg and not Stuttgart? You use the license plate as a guide.
Yes, yes, Stuttgart is right, please forgive me!
what. You just need to get used to it first. So far, your name should be: Richard, Übermut, Samuel, Samuel, Ida, Nordpol, Gustav. This is how it was spelled in Germany for decades. Why amend the corresponding DIN standard?
The spelling table has been around for a long time, most of the time it is not the responsibility of our institute’s German Institute for Standardization. This is only the situation since the 1980s. About two years ago, Baden-Württemberg Anti-Semitism Commissioner Dr. Michael Bloom made a proposal for change. He pointed out that at the time the Nazi regime deleted Jewish names from the spelling alphabet. For example, N for Nathan becomes N for the North Pole. Dr. Blume recommends reversing such interventions. We are open to this and decided to fundamentally review the spelling alphabet.
