Re: Capital Sharp S in the News

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 02:19:20 CDT

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    At 08:58 +0200 2008-07-01, Johannes Rössel wrote:

    >>Since German orthographic reform has made
    >><Maße> ['ma:s@] 'measures' distinct in spelling
    >>from <Masse> ['mas@] 'mass'
    >
    >This must date back to at least the 1901 reform.
    >The 1996 reform didn't change that, it was
    >already that way.

    There are other words in the 1996 reform though
    where the distinction was introduced. Gruss and
    Kuß? 

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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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