ß

Looks like 'B' but sounds like 'S'. Used in the German language.

Often replaced with 'ss' when using a computer/typewriter that can't produce it.

Ich heiße Killbot (My name is Killbot)

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ß

A German ligature that originally stood for 'sz', but can be transliterated as 'ss'. It is never found in Swiss German. It looks like a B, but sounds like an S. Compare to the boring language known as English, which only has the ligatures Æ and Œ, which are rarely used.

Face it, English is a boring language, and the chance of a cool ligature like ß entering it are zero to one million.

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ß

A German letter-character which, despite its size, could be considered as always ‘lowercase’ since it never *starts* a word and stands in only its one form, ß.

The ligature ‘ß’ is k’rrectly ASCII'd\ASCIIfied into either:


‘ss’, which is pronounced as ‘'s'-set’ or ‘double-'s'’_character;

or ‘sz’, which the ligature *orinally* represented, and is pronounced as ‘'ess'-'tset'’. (In german, the letter ‘z’ is pronounced as ‘tset’, and in words usually like English ‘piZZa’ or ‘TSunami’, with a ‘ts’ sound.)


That is to say, the German word ‘Tischfußball’ which means ‘table soccer’ or ‘foozball’.. can be spelled-out as ‘Tischfussball’ also. Note that the German's ess-tzet{ß} has officially been abandoned a lot of places in that it is no-longer used in transactions and business et cetera. Note also that it is *never* used in a compound noun where an s-ending of one word and s-beginning of the next exists.

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ß

The german letter es'tzet (S'Z), pronounced ss. To wordprocess this letter you can hold 'Alt' and press '225' on the number pad on the right of the keyboard. It does not have a capital form and it is only used at the end of a word or the stem of a verb. All nouns in German must start with a capital letter.

Spaß - Fun
Weiß - White
Heiß - Hot
Schloß - Castle
Ich heiße Klaus - I am called Klaus.

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ß

An “s” pretending to be a “b”

Person 1: ß
Person 2: what

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ß

When you don't know how to combine letters to make a sound, so you just create a new letter.

Instead of using ss, let's use ß.

ß

german letter for ss

english: black
german: weiß
sounds like: veiss
(w's soound like v's)

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