How to spell Moenchengladbach/Monchengladbach

Hey guys!

What is the correct English spelling of this city?

Is it Monchengladbach or Moenchengladbach?

Thanks in advance (any source links would be super)

Moenchengladbach

Just add an e after any ümlaut letter in German.

I'd go for Moenchengladbach, since for example URLs are written with -oe- (I live in Düsseldorf, same "problem".)
That would be a common denominator.

Though neither form is correct, you just can't say it is right, it's just an accepted solution to a technical problem.
It's a name and even in foreign languages you should write it properly.

Replacing ö by oe is perfectly acceptable. So Moenchengladbach is correct.

So why is your location Nuremberg and not Nuernberg?

Yeah, yeah, just add an umlaut, but I was wondering if there is some official standard here.

Any links (besides the little note in wikipedia)?

OK, sorry to bore you with this drab topic. Thanks for the help and any future help.

München is German, as is Muenchen. Munich is the anglicization of München

Likewise Köln=Koeln English Cologne
Nürnberg=Nuernberg English Nuremberg.
Berlin=Berlin English Berlin

QED

If you're serious:

Some German cities and regions have separate english names.
(Historic reasons)

Munich, Cologne, Nuremberg.
Hessia, Rhineland Palatinate, Saxony etc.

Just as some Belgian towns have city names in 3 languages. For example:
Liège = Lüttich = Leuk.

I've just realised Toko is in Düsseldorf, while I'm in Nuremberg. This is not our individual choices, rather the locations setup by the board adminstrators are inconsistent between German spelling, and Anglicization.

This is horrible, moderators fix it!!!

LOL, no. I chose the spelling of Düsseldorf.
So did you, i assume.

No I chose my location from the pull down list in "Edit profile" There's no option as far as I know to enter a place name directly. Otherwise I'd be in Nürnberg. I think Nuremberg sucks.

Frankly, I would learn to spell what correctly first , before worrying about long words like Monchengladbach ;)

Frankly I'd learn about title edits, and who done them before trying to be smart.

Basically, it's a question of English speakers not being able to get their speaking apparatus around umlauts and a sequence of three consonants (Nürnberg).

As said above, when in doubt cheat and add the e to the previous vowel in its pristine and simple state.

An old one:

Who is the most unpopular person at a Borussia Mönchengladbach football game?

The guy in the stands who shouts " Give me a B..., Give me an o..."

I remember the British Forces pronouncing Mönchengladbach the English way after it was spelt "Moenchengladbach" (for speakers of German it became "Munschengladback"). Mülheim was always Mulheim (pronounced "Mullheim").

By the way, it's pedantry not pedanticism.

Which is actually the old way. The umlaut dots are the result of the letter e moving to a position above the vowel and then being simplified to dots.

[pedant mode on]
Both terms are correct.
[/off]

Can't find pedanticism in any dictionary.

Or go the really old way which was München-Gladbach (to tell it apart from Bergisch Gladbach).

I can confirm that it's in Webster's, as seen with my own eyes, and I have second-hand (web-based) evidence that it's in the OED as well.

And on the free online dictionary as well.