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It started out as a ligature of ſ and ʒ, forms of s and z that don't exist anymore today in German. And it became a letter like æ did. Also this happened at a
by legulere 9y ago
It started out as a ligature of ſ and ʒ, forms of s and z that don't exist anymore today in German. And it became a letter like æ did. Also this happened at a time where z was pronounced differently from how it is pronounced today.
- quink 9y ago> It started out as a ligature of ſ and ʒ I know that, but again prescriptive linguistics vs. descriptive and descriptive definitely says ss.
- legulere 9y agoSs is horrible because double consonants signify short preceding vocals in German. Yet ß is preceded by long vocals. If you want to replace it, then just with s.
- vacri 9y agoI can't speak for other languages, but in English æ isn't really a letter in the modern tongue. It's just used when someone wants to be 'fancy'. You'll see athenaeum far more than you see athenæum, for example.
- kuschku 9y agoHe might be referring to danish, where æ is a standard letter used all over the language.