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  • Subject: Re: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
  • From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:41:37 -0500

At 8:00 am +0200 10/30/04, Mark Smith wrote:

I've never heard of "esset" either, the current pronunctiation here in Germany (in my experience) is ALWAYS eszett (or "ess zed" with English phonetics)


There is an interesting article about German spelling reformation with information about the eszet here:
<http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa092898.htm>



Now, a very off-topic question about the eszet/ß:

I am almost certain that my college German professor (who was ancient when I took the class in the '70s) referred to the character as a blaustaff (my spelling may be off: she pronounced it as "blauw-staff, where the "auw" was pronounced like the "ow" in cow).

Could Mark or a native German speaker comment on this?

Is blaustaff some unspeakable obscenity that I've unwittingly typed, the name of something else entirely, or just a figment of my inaccurate recall? :-0


Thanks,

-=-Dennis


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