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Okay, people "blücher" is not spelled "blucher". That funny looking "u" with the dots is called a u-umlaut and changes the letter completely. It can be substituted with "ue"(as can any umlaut). So, if you don't know the code(right alt + 0252) just add an "e",bluecher.

It comes from Germanic language. Before you say anything bad about Der Deutsch read this sentence:

I had to polish the Polish furniture.

Source:
Ich komme aus Deutschland.
Also, my name is spelled with an umlaut.
 

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Or the alternate spelling: d-e-r-b-y :p

Thanks for the little language trivia though.
 

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Originally Posted by andrew96
Okay, people "blücher" is not spelled "blucher". That funny looking "u" with the dots is called a u-umlaut and changes the letter completely. It can be substituted with "ue"(as can any umlaut). So, if you don't know the code(right alt + 0252) just add an "e",bluecher.

It comes from Germanic language. Before you say anything bad about Der Deutsch read this sentence:

I had to polish the Polish furniture.

Source:
Ich komme aus Deutschland.
Also, my name is spelled with an umlaut.


I knew I woke up today for a reason...
 

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Originally Posted by blahman
Or the alternate spelling: d-e-r-b-y :p

Thanks for the little language trivia though.


You just don't sound cool and educated if you say derby though. It's such a barbaric term.
 

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While we are on the topic, though, does anybody know why derby shoes are named (in US English) after Generalfeldmarschall von Blücher? He didn't invent them, did he? After all, he was a hussar, and presumably wore boots.
 

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Originally Posted by Hans
While we are on the topic, though, does anybody know why derby shoes are named (in US English) after Generalfeldmarschall von Blücher? He didn't invent them, did he? After all, he was a hussar, and presumably wore boots.

I don't think it was named after him. I believe that in those days Blücher was a common name.
 

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You don't say!
 

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Originally Posted by andrew96
I believe that in those days Blücher was a common name.

... and then the Blüchers became extinct??
 

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Originally Posted by Hans
... and then the Blüchers became extinct??

"Amongst the great surnames of Germany that of "Blucher" is one of the most prominent. Like many such surnames it is of residential origins, and derives from the village of the same name near Boizenburg, on the river Elbe. The placename is of Slavonic origin, and it is thought that it describes a particular type of log cabin common in the region in ancient times. The surname is also found in the spelling forms of Bluecher and Bluechert. Not only is "Blucher" one of the most prominent of German surnames, with Coats of Arms granted to nameholders in Bavaria, Pomerania, Prussia and Mecklenburg (the epicentre of the surname) it is one of the earliest, as shown below. The most famous of the nameholders is probably Gebhard Leberecht Von Blucher, Prince of Wahlstadt and victor of Waterloo (1815) with the Duke of Wellington. Other (Church) recordings include Anna Maria Von Bluecher, who was baptised at Sukow, Mecklenburg, on June 1st 1598, and Joachim Bluecher, who married Elspeth Hamborg at Schlagsdorf, Mecklenburg, on April 29th 1662. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ulrich Von Blucher, which was dated 1214, in the "Medieval Land Charters of the Province of Mecklenburg", Germany, during the reign of Emperor Frederich 11 of the Holy Roman Empire, 1214 - 1250. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Blucher#ixzz1E54pFP71"


No, more likely they became spread out and then the name pool of Germany was diluted with middle eastern names. Most traditional names have been destroyed unfortunately. How many Oestmann's do you know? I'm one, we're from Hamburg and it was once a very common name in Germany.
 

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Originally Posted by andrew96
Okay, people "blücher" is not spelled "blucher". That funny looking "u" with the dots is called a u-umlaut and changes the letter completely. It can be substituted with "ue"(as can any umlaut). So, if you don't know the code(right alt + 0252) just add an "e",bluecher.

It comes from Germanic language. Before you say anything bad about Der Deutsch read this sentence:


Note the bolded words. It comes from German. But it came to English. Blucher is an English word. Bluecher is not. If you don't want to take my word for it, try OED.
 

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Originally Posted by L'Incandescent
Note the bolded words. It comes from German. But it came to English. Blucher is an English word. Bluecher is not. If you don't want to take my word for it, try OED.


Sure you can omit the diacritic in cafÃ
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, but it looks like crap and shows you ignorance. I love the OED as much as anyone, probably more, although English is made of of many languages. All languages are. English is a Germanic language, and people should understand Germanic symbols. If you didn't know better and you read that, you'd think it was pronounced incorrectly.
 

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Off topic, but I'd just like to state for the record that Eau d'Orange Verte is a very good Köln.
 

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Originally Posted by andrew96
You just don't sound cool and educated if you say derby though. It's such a barbaric term.

Well, in that case... I'm sure we all want to sound cool and educated. By the way, just how is derby a barbaric term?

I wore cologne in Köln.
 

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Originally Posted by BevisFrondFan
Well, in that case... I'm sure we all want to sound cool and educated. By the way, just how is derby a barbaric term?

I wore cologne in Köln.


Nothing really wrong with it. I'm a Kraut though so I'd rather use the German.
 

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