Talk:Zürich
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| 1 (discussion on title Zurich vs. Zürich) |
[edit] Cleanup
ok, the "sights" and "clubbing" sections need to go. Wikipedia isn't a tourist guide. Rewrite as prose summary, export to Zurich nightlife (and see if it's deleted as spam), or just delete. dab (��) 20:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- Please don't remove it, I just came to this page to find that information. It's called "culture" and is worth mentioning in an encyclopedia.
I just looked everywhere and couldn't find where it said the main languages of the city. If it has been written, I don't think it's very apparent Canking 19:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
according to 2000 statistics, first languages are distributed as follows: German 84.8% (Swiss German: 65.1%, non-Swiss German speakers 12.6%), Italian 4.7%, South Slavic 2.4%, Spanish 2.2%, French 2.1%, English 1.8%, Portuguese 1.6%, Albanian 1.5%, Turkish 0.9%. dab (��) 12:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
Why are all of the variants of the city's name in the beginning of the article accompanied by their respective pronuntiations, but for the english one?? This is rather annoying. Can anyone add the English pronunciation, whatever it is?
- See approximately six inches up the page. There are at least three ways I might pronounce it in English, depending on my mood. 62.136.137.152 15:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- Which page? I can't find anything about this either in the discussion page or in the main article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.141.25.253 (talk) 00:49, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
we usually do not give pronunciation information for English because readers of the English language encyclopedia are expected to know English. In the case of proper names, of course, pronunciation information may be given in ambiguous cases, but you will need to provide a source for the information you add. dab (𒁳) 13:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, but one can know English without knowing how to pronounce proper names like this. Dictionaries don't contain this information usually, so unless one has heard it prononuced how can you know the correct way, even if you know English? And this is indeed an ambiguous case. For example, is the first Z pronounced as in zebra? And is the final "ch" pronounced as in "chair" or is it a k sound? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.51.9 (talk) 00:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
