At 08:47 -0700 2003-07-29, Peter Kirk wrote:
Another example might be German ß (U+00DF). Many people don't use it, indeed I think it has been officially abolished, but many others do use it.
Peter, there isn't a shred of truth in what you are saying.
See http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa092898.htm. This confirms that Swiss Germans, surely "Many people", don't use it, but /Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung /and implicitly "most citizens of the German-speaking countries" do still use it. The only shred of untruth is that what I said I think is true is in fact an exaggeration, the abolition is only partial.
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