On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:16:10 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote:

>"sweet" is "suss"; "sweets" (as in "candies") is "Susse". (No, I don't know
>how to enter an ess-tsett, but one should go in place of the two "s"es if
>you're being pedantic.) Wonder how much that influenced the choice of
>acronym...

Not a lot would be my guess. The 'u' in 'suss' has an umlaut, making it a
completely different vowel in german. As to the ess-tset, don't bother -
the most recent german Rechtschreibreform got rid of it.

/Per

best regards,
Per Jessen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://timian.jessen.ch - an analog report-formatter using XSLT

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