In the early 2000s, a team of linguists in Munich faced a gargantuan task: they needed to teach early speech-recognition software how to pronounce every single last name in Germany. To do this, they couldn't just have a list of names; they needed a "markup" version of the national (Telephone Book). The Technical Hurdles
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The name is likely a remnant of an old linguistic database.