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) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
