Talk:Hanover
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Additional information - Hanover
Concerning the correct spelling: "Hanover" vs. "Hannover"
"Hanover" is the correct English spelling according to: a dictionary (Cassells Wörterbuch, twelfth edition, 1976), the online dictionary LEO (http://dict.leo.org), http://babelfish.altavista.com and an Oxford dictionary.
Note though that Germans spell it "Hannover". Perhaps the following excerpt of a posting in the usenet (alt.california) sums it up:
"Similar issues arise with spelling. The German city Hanover has this spelling in English, and Germans who know English use it when writing English. It is important in English history, because it is where the present English royal family comes from. However, the German spelling is Hannover. Many Americans learn the word from German contacts and therefore use the German spelling. There is no unique correct answer."
mkrohn 17:21 Mar 22, 2003 (UTC)
district=Kreis=Region, region=Bezirk? Strange translation!
The district's name is "Hannover Region" in German and "Hanover (district)" in English. But, is a German Bezirk really called "region" in English, since Region is the name of the merged two Kreises ... 82.82.126.247 18:36, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
What would you translate Bezirk as? Books on the former GDR translate it as region. Secretlondon 18:37, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
You cannot compare GDR-Bezirk and German ones. 82.82.126.247 18:41, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
So how would you translate Bezirk? Secretlondon 18:42, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
what about area? 82.82.126.247 18:43, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- This is a little bit difficult. Normally Kreis is translated to "district"; a Kreis is subordinate to a Regierungsbezirk, which we do translate to "administrative region" on Wikipedia. Now it is somewhat unfortunate, that the district of Hanover decided in 2001 to call itself "Region Hannover", thus resulting in the admittedly confusing situation, that the Region Hanover is a district being a part of the region of Hanover. But be careful before changing the translation of Regierungsbezirk here, because then you should do it in several hundred articles here in Wikipedia. My proposal: leave it as it is now, and let the text clear up possible misunderstandings. -- Baldhur 21:22, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)