I used to have a (high-ranking and well-educated) foreign colleague who used to think that the “Main” indeed signified that this was the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts.
I honestly can’t blame him, it was a deceptivley plausible misconception.
I used to have a (high-ranking and well-educated) foreign colleague who used to think that the “Main” indeed signified that this was the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts.
I honestly can’t blame him, it was a deceptivley plausible misconception.
There is another Frankfurt. It’s lies on the river Oder. The same word for other.
So there is Frankfurt Main and Frankfurt Other.
For people learning German: “oder” means “or” “andere/r/s” means “other”.
I like the joke though
I mean it is the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts, so it kinda fits