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Are there actually any words like that that have made their way into English?

• conceit 11y ago
  yes, ueber became uber.
  • viewer5 11y ago
    That does have the 'ß' character in it, though, which is what I was asking about.
    • schoen 11y ago
      One possibility is the unit "gauss" (which, like the person, is Gauß in German). I was trying to figure out whether the spelling "Delikateßen" was ever standard (it would have been "-essen" even before the spelling reform, I think). I found some old books with a Google search that did use that form, but I don't know if it was ever standard or was a variant spelling.
    • yorwba 11y ago
      Words in the category "English terms derived from German" on Wiktionary[1] that contain "ss" instead of "ß": ahlspiess, edelweiss, Federweisser, frass, Preussen, stoss, sussreserve, weissbier, weisswurst [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_German https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...
• deleted 11y ago
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