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From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:30:45 +0200
Date: 2011-10-10T18:30:45+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e931db5$0$6541$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> (raw)

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

Just in case you wonder what sharp-s is in German, a few decades ago
German writers would have written Kongre� where they now write Kongress.
look at Congress in the text above to see why. ;-)

The following small article, from a 1949 German news paper,
features president Truman, nuclear Bombs, and said word on line 15:

http://pdfarchiv.zeit.de/1949/39/atom-wettrennen.pdf


  type P is acce� T;
   -- pre-reform spelling :-)



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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 16:30 Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2011-10-10 16:46 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Adam Beneschan
2011-10-10 18:23   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 22:25     ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-11  7:36       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11  7:41         ` sharp ß " Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11  8:33           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 20:32             ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12  7:43               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12  9:42                 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-10-12 12:09                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 20:17                 ` sharp " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 21:18                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 17:33     ` sharp ß " Martin Krischik
2011-10-11 18:54       ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-12 13:03       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 13:48         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 18:24           ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 20:06             ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 20:48             ` sharp ß " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 22:56               ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like AC CESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13  8:10                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 12:13                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 13:25                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 15:18                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 19:17                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11  7:33   ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 14:32     ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-11 17:26   ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not) Martin Krischik
2011-10-12 12:34     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 17:22 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Simon Wright
2011-10-10 17:45 ` AdaMagica

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