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ß?

Posted by Nick B. on 2011-02-19 02:17:40

Interesting. I learned that it's called "eszett" back when I had a semester of German in college, decades ago. Then over here, I've been nearly unanimously told to call it "scharfes S", not eszett. But usually nobody can explain why. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F has some interesting history...note the URL has "%C3%9F" for "ß".