Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch rather than "Zuid-Afrika" as in Dutch, South Africa adopted "ZA" as its international vehicle registration code in 1936, which later became the country's ISO country code, with .za becoming the country's internet domain. In the middle of words, Afrikaans merged Dutch and to a single sound and consequently to a single spelling, . Compare Dutch "haven" (port) with Afrikaans "hawe", both pronounced . Afrikaans merged Dutch fricatives and to a single sound , spelt , except when preceded by , in which case (pronounced ) is used where Dutch uses (pronounced , or ; hence "school" is "school" in Dutch
Vehicle registration plate supplemented with the flag or emblem of the national state, or the emblem of the regional economic integration organization to which the country belongs. Diplomatic plates are usually denoted by the letters "CD" in Europe which stands for "Corps Diplomatique" located usually at the beginning of the number plate (France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal) or middle (Netherlands). The United Kingdom uses "D" for "diplomat". In order to combat registration plate fraud, Germany developed a typeface which is called "fälschungserschwerende Schrift" (abbr.: "FE-Schrift"), meaning "falsification-hindering script". It is designed so that, for example, the "O" cannot be adjusted to look like a