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Originally Posted by HarryT
If a word has an umlaut, you can always replace the umlaut with a following "e". For example, as I understand it, if a word is normally spelt with an "ö", you can always write "oe" in place of the "ö". That's right, isn't it?
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As a rule, no
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Does it not work the other way around, too? ie, are you saying that you CAN'T replace an "oe" with a "ö"?
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It depends. Old-fashioned spellings sometimes use it, e.g. the Austrian National Bank refers to itself as "Oesterreichische (not: Österreichische) Nationalbank", and you wouldn't change that. It's rare, though.