ß

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title: ß
text: In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett or scharfes S, represents the phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of ⟨s⟩ (Es) and ⟨z⟩ (Zett) in German. The character's Unicode names in English are sharp s and eszett. The Eszett letter is used only in German, and can be typographically replaced with the double-s digraph ⟨ss⟩, if the ß-character is unavailable. In the 20th century, the ß-character was rep
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description: Letter of the Latin alphabet; used in German
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
date created: 2003-03-18T20:54:06Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T16:00:01Z
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