Stuttgart didn’t make it, Augsburg also fell by the wayside. And Bremen is the only federal state that is not included. In the future, letters will be spelled from A for Aachen to Z for Zwickau. After intensive consultations, the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) published the new spelling table in B for Berlin. DIN 5009 for “Announcements and dictation of texts and characters” now uses city names almost throughout. First names cannot include all So far, first names have been used, such as C for Caesar or E for Emil. 16 men’s names faced six women’s names. Including the...