It must be getting scary for the people of Frankfurt.
Offenbach beats the neighboring city again!
At least they didn't poach away an industrial company this time.
However, not the mayor either, from whom the Frankfurters would have easily parted.
No, Offenbach is at the top of the new spelling alphabet, which the German Institute for Standardization officially published on Friday and which only knows city names.
The good news for both places: They are in.
In future it will be “F like Frankfurt” instead of “F like Friedrich” and “O like Offenbach” instead of “O like Otto”.
So far so good.
But Offenbach even made it onto the list a second time!
“Ö like Umlaut Offenbach” is the correct announcement if you want to spell “wasteland”, “oedema” or “oily”.
Nothing more with "Ö like economist" like until Friday.
Two to one for Offenbach, another defeat for Frankfurt, defeat with N like Nuremberg.
And it's only small consolation that other cities don't appear at all.
"W like Wiesbaden"?
No, Wuppertal.
"D like Darmstadt"?
Oh, Dusseldorf.
Right at the front instead: Öffenbach.
Wouldn't have thought of it.