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Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation Aug 22, 2011
A85725075
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the name of the city is Münster with an umlaut on the U. It is normal in German to write an e after the u if an umlaut character is not available. So müsli becomes muesli rather than musli, and Münster becomes Muenster.
I checked this with the author, and he said he'd prefer the spelling Muenster to Munster (without an umlaut) as there is at least one other city in Germany called Munster (without an umlaut).
EF: Eds - A85725075 Munster, Germany
The H2G2 Editors Posted Aug 22, 2011
OK, understood. We'll change that back. 
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