Well, not quite. The "Rechtschreibreform" threw away some strange rules, but the sz still exists (not in Switzerland, but in Germany and Austria). If the vowel before the sz is long, the sz remains, otherwise the "Rechtschreibreform" changed this to double s.
Regards, Bernd Am Mit, 06 Aug 2003 schrieben Sie: > 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
