Kü Club Meeting Summary (2012)

[Don M]

Originally Posted by mauro

Remind that, according to the Kü chart, if the Kü meaning will be discovered, we need to dissolve our Kü club so, please, keep some secret areas :-)

I think the club will be safe for at least a while. Ignoring the lack of an umlaut in Krugau is like believing it could have been abbreviated as Kb. or some other abbreviation Kx. where x is not found in Krugau. It is an entirely different letter.

My experience in trying to interpret German abbreviations (admittedly, mostly police) suggests that the ü would not necessarily be the last letter in the word. It could as well been the second letter or even somewhere between the second and last. I don't think there were any universal rules for abbreviations in German just as there are no such rules in English. It just needs to make sense and be recognizable. See, for example, the discussion on p. 46 of HWIS.