Valkenswaard Becomes Valkeswird: Rens Wants Discussion About Place Name Signs

Omroep Brabant

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If you ride into Valkenswaard on Tuesday, there's a good chance you'll be entering 'Valkeswird'—the place name in the local dialect—according to the place name sign. A group of journalists will be placing stickers with the old place names on the "regular" place name signs in ten Brabant towns on Tuesday. They believe that duplicate place name signs are a painful absence in our province. Passersby in Valkenswaard are divided over the sticker on t…