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I KNOW, I know. Umlauts, who cares? Well, you may want to ask the Pennsylvania "Dutch," for one example. Just because Americans were too lazy to pronouce "Deutsch."
Gary Lee's "Along the Rhine, Old Europe's New Vibe" [May 1]makes the same mistake by referring to Koln instead of Koeln. By writing Dusseldorf, instead of Duesseldorf, he has inadvertently condemned the city of being composed of village idiots. Look it up!
For a major U.S. newspaper, with international pretensions, to ignore the correct usage of foreign place names or languages is quite incomprehensible. Shape up.
Peter W. Kriegsmann
College Park
Virgin of Guadalupe, Cont'd
THANKS FOR your great article on collecting Virgin of Guadalupe items ["Touched by the Virgin," May 8]. I thought there was no one else buying electric blinking light Virgin wall decorations (I got mine last Christmas from http:/
Anne Moss
Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
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