D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically. It is a common situation during a phone call: the ...

But this is not the only version of a phonetic alphabet to have existed, with the first German version going back to the 1890 Berlin telephone book, in which every letter was assigned a number. In ...

GERMANY: A 130-year war of typographical attrition has come to a rather inky end, writes Derek Scally in Berlin GERMANY:A 130-year war of typographical attrition has come to a rather inky end, writes ...

Have you ever been typing in German in a blaze of BLOCK CAPITAL anger, but been stopped short by the inability to write the next letter of the word SCHEI...? Help is finally at hand. At the end of ...

Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German beginners' class to introduce the alphabet. Wunderbar !!! Flag this comment My first time here and hahhaah this guy is so funny as well as an ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and ...

Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö. Where would Düsseldorf be without its ...