Are You Familiar With This German Letter?

You know, I have to tell you. If I don't share this here, where else can I LOL?

But I've got to share this with you: ß.

It's a character only found in the German language. It's called the sharp ess. But doesn't it look like a B? When I first saw it 30 years ago, I thought it was the Greek beta.

Anyway, it is the medial and terminal ess put together. You're familiar with the medial from older English manuscripts, where it looks like a lowercase f.

Anyway, if you encounter it, and you can't find it on your character map, most people just type it as a double "ss".

 

Yess, I'm familiar with it. But I never knew what it was called. But the Nazi SS did not use that symbol, just 2 italicized S.

 

Well, I guess this doesn't deserve a new thread IAE: this is the letter edh: Ð, ð. We used to have it in Old English script. They still use it in Icelandic.

I think we should bring it back, along with thorn and yogh. But that's just me.

 

These are the 4 additional letters in the German alphabet. These days they are mostly only found in surnames and words with a compound meaning, such as
Götterdämmerung. (Twilight or the gods)

 

German keyboard, Don't ask me how to use it.

 

I know it has the S sound.
PS ,the above key bord just has the extra umlauts .