> >"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. There is a comedy show in the UK - "'Allo, 'allo" in which one character plays a French policeman who makes the most appalling gaffes using mispronunciation. I know a couple of Englishmen who believe they can speak German and make exactly the same mistakes with u for |. I don't think the Rechtschreibreform got rid of _ completely - it certainly cleaned up some odd uses. I'm glad to see some of the silliness (Ristorant?) got thrown out. For those interested, http://www.rechtschreibreform.com/ - it's an interesting debate. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
