From: "Radovan Garabik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just a wild guess: isn't the acute accent used to indicate that > Oe does not form a digraph Ö, but is to be pronounced separately?
This "acute" really looks like a printing error to me, not like a real acute. But if you were to pronounce o-e distnictly (which I don't think is the case here), you'd use the e-tréma sign: Oëchtringen. There is a German comedian whose last name is written "Hoëcker" since it is pronounced "ho-eck-er" rather than "höck-er". Adam
