From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 21:53:49 MST
Michael Lorrey wrote:
> ... I don't understand, though, why Germans
> would use a capital B with a tail as a replacement
> for the 'ss' in -strasse ??? Is it a different pronouncement?
The first part of that doodad is a "long s" such as you may have noticed
in 18C printing. It's marginally significant in that long s never
appears at the end of a syllable; thus the thing-that-looks-like-B can
never represent two "ss" that have come together by compounding.
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