Btw this is Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk. She plays her in various Cunk on…Earth/Britain/Life/etc. shows which are all brilliant. If someone here hasn’t seen them I highly recommend them.

I’ll never get English speakers calling Köln ‘Cologne’.

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Always weirds me out how even the Germans have their own names for most of the bigger cities in northern and middle Italy, even though most of those names are perfectly easy to pronounce using German spelling rules. Native English speakers (who didn’t spend years learning a romance language (other than French) or Germanic language) literally cannot pronounce most Italian city names, but if you grew up with German you can definitely say “Firenze” or “Milano” without deviating too much from how Italians would pronounce these - even the “z” is the same!