To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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    “Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

    I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H to make the right sound.

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      OK. German has an H (same as English, which makes it weird that it’s written with a P in the first place) and isn’t shy about spelling reforms, either.