On 14 Feb 2005 at 9:25, Florence + Michael wrote:

> At 16:51 -0500 13/02/2005, David W. Fenton wrote:
> >I'm not sure where you're getting the "sz" from -- that is not what
> >it is at all. If you look at it in German schrift (i.e.,
> >handwriting), it's quite clear that it's two s's, one the "f-like"
> >version followed by a crook to a regular lower-case s.
> 
> In German, this letter is called "Eszett", which is a combination of
> the German names for "S' and 'Z'. For more information, see the
> "Eszett-Seite": http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ma8/eszet.html
> See also http://faql.de/art19970226a.html and
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F German scholars apparently can't
> agree if it comes from a ligature of a long S with a round S, or a
> ligature of a long S with a Z.

I honestly didn't know that. In reading German Schrift, it always 
seemed completely clear that it was long s + round s.

I do know that some fonts that I've seen look like a ligature of f + 
z (Book Antiqua is one), where "f" stands for the long s that 
vanished from English in the 19th century.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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