Hello, am 2017-07-03 um 18:16 Uhr habe ich geschrieben:
This rule did hold for all consonants, there’s nothing particular about double-s.
On 2017-07-03 at 18:05 Jörg Knappen had written:
the hyphenation oddity … never affected the letter s.
Jörg is right. I forgot the additional rule that you had to spell “ß” instead of “ss” at the end of every constituent of a compound word, so the rule I reported would never be applied to “ss”. Also the “ss” → “ß” rule has been dropped by the spelling reform of 1996. Btw., the dropping of said ß rule has led to much controversy during the ’90s. Most people were not aware that that very rule had been introduced by the pen-ultimate spelling reform, in 1901. Best wishes, Otto