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Brussel - the name on wrong place in VT database

I worked in Brussel for four months and I visit it often. So I thought to open a VT-page as well. Looking for Brussel (which is the city's official name in the most spoken language of Belgium) I did not find it in the VT database but was directed to a Brussel in South Africa (I never heard about it before) and decided to build my Brussel page there.

I know that the majority of the inhabitants of Brussel speaks French and therefore Bruxelles is of course always used at the first place there. i do not want to contribute to the sometimes ridiculous language conflict in Belgium but I find it strange that the VT database does not contain both the French and the Dutch name.

Helsinki is for example bi-lingual (Finnish and Swedish) as well and Swedish isthe second official language in Finland. But there is a difference. Swedish has only about 7 % native speakers in Finland and in Helsinki itself both the fraction of Swedish speakers and its absolute number is clearly smaller than the number of Dutch speakers in Brussel. But the Swedish name Helsingfors is in the VT database.

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TheWanderingCamel Dec 27, 2007 at 4:23 PM

Some people just don't get irony.
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globetrott Jun 19, 2006 at 2:47 AM

Spritz-Pistole oder Feuerwehrschlauch ??

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