Ij is NOT the correct spelling, but it comes first.answers.com wrote:Ijs·sel·meer or IJs·sel·meer (ī'səl-mâr', -mār') pronunciation
A shallow, dike-enclosed lake of northwest Netherlands. It was formed from the Zuider Zee by the construction of two dams (completed in 1932). Much fertile farmland has been reclaimed from the lake since that time.
Spelling of a capital IJ
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Spelling of a capital IJ
I recently found this on http://www.answers.com/topic/ijsselmeer
Yeah we learnt that in what, first year of elementary school?
http://rudhar.com/lingtics/nlij_en.htm
lol (click) they got it right on their own entries for ij
http://rudhar.com/lingtics/nlij_en.htm
lol (click) they got it right on their own entries for ij
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In Dutch. But again, there's no such constraint in other languages. Just for the record, in Hungarian we normally use Ij for Dutch names starting with IJ.King Harold wrote:An IJ is not allowed to be capitalized as Ij.
Who said languages are logical?King Harold wrote:And in most other languages it makes no sense not to follow this rule since they don't use the ij anyway.
You could as well say that e.g. the spelling of Vienna is incorrect, and it should be written as Wien.
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