I had a teacher from Basel and he always spelled it with the "e" first... It's spelled "Basel" in German and that's the usual spelling used in English too, I thought. (but according to Wikipedia, "Basle" is the traditional spelling)
I suppose it's ok if you still call Beijing "Peking"... :)
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cc @ Mar 30th 2007 12:55PM
I had a teacher from Basel and he always spelled it with the "e" first... It's spelled "Basel" in German and that's the usual spelling used in English too, I thought. (but according to Wikipedia, "Basle" is the traditional spelling)
I suppose it's ok if you still call Beijing "Peking"... :)