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Seems like US English was bussy replacing German umlaut characters ä, ö, ü (transcribed in ascii as ae, oe, ue) with americanized version.
by levosmetalo 12y ago
Seems like US English was bussy replacing German umlaut characters ä, ö, ü (transcribed in ascii as ae, oe, ue) with americanized version.
- _delirium 12y agoThese words aren't German borrowings, so that isn't related at all. The ae in this class of words is from Latin æ (ultimately from Greek αι). The ae->e shift was an attempt at spelling simplification, to remove some vestigial Latinisms, but only partially succeeded.
- waqf 12y agoConfusingly, though, German does render Latin æ, œ as ä, ö (ästhetisch, ökonomisch)
- _delirium 12y agoTrue, although I believe than in itself is only a slightly older (circa 1900) spelling reform. In older German books, you see Aesthetik/aesthetische/etc. instead. Lots of borrowing and adaptation... Ngrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Aesthetik%2C%C3%84sthetik&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=20 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Aesthetik%2C%C... Random example: http://books.google.com/books?id=7ZpJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover http://books.google.com/books?id=7ZpJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front...