Åå Ää Öö
Åå Ää Öö
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- GreedoLives0
ha germany actually recently had a spelling reform (which was not popular at all and is still being fought in court) where they got rid of one of our anomalies, the 'sharp s' or ß.
it's really a greek beta and is supposed to be a 'tz' sound but is really pronounced 'sss'.
the 'letter' itself came from the old german fraktur, where they took to connecting the t and the z, which sorta made it look like a beta. when hitler in the 30s officially proclaimed that germans shouldn't write in fraktur anymore, it became adopted into the language without ever becoming an actual letter.
this concludes tonight's episode of pointless typography tales.