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The town we're staying in, Nördlingen, has in its name a silent umlaut. More or less. I have confirmed this with a few locals.

I suspect the Germans and/or Bavarians find it as difficult to pronounce with the umlaut as I did, but will need further research to see whether other silent umlauts exist in similarly challenging words.

Update 28 Juli: Here in Baden and/or by me listening more closely to native speakers, the umlaut is pronounced, but does not seem as difficult as I had imagined. Those umlauts (and "ch", too) they teach in American schools, I think, are made a lot more difficult for students than German actually is....

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