Re: sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Oct 10, 9:30 am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> The history of the USA harbors an interesting specimen of sharp-s,
> its origin and meaning, as I learned just now.
> It is not from a text written in German, though; rather, it is heading,
> TA DA, the Bill of Rights:
>
> http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_zoom_1.html

It's clearly two separate letters there.  And my understanding was
that the origins of the "sharp s" was that it was a combination of s
and z (not of the longer and smaller forms of "s" that we see in the
Bill of Rights).  When I took German in high school about 35 years
ago, the character was called "ess-zed", suggesting that origin.  I
think that's what my father (whose first language was German) called
it too.  I never heard the term "sharp s" until the issue arose in ARG
discussions.

Not sure what point I'm trying to make here.  And I certainly don't
mean to suggest that I know more about your native language than you
do.

                 -- Adam