Talk:Hesse

Category:English exonyms
As pointed out by the derivation from German and from the German entry on this page, er, no, it's very much not an exonym. Modern standard German may prefer but that doesn't make it an "exonym" any more than use of the local dialect form  makes that an exonym in place of Beijing's Mandarin form. If anything, until the local German dialect shifts, there's a stronger argument to consider the standard German form of the name the exonym in this case. — LlywelynII  03:23, 31 March 2024 (UTC)