From: Oliver Brose (oliver.brose_at_t-online.de)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 23:10:13 PDT
>From: "Gerstein, Sam" <Sam.Gerstein_at_Streamserve.Com>
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:34:53 -0400
>
>It's actually a dental fricative, an "ess" of some kind (don't speak German,
>so I couldn't say for sure). Its name is sometimes written "ess-tzet"
>though I was going to try to avoid embarassing myself by writing it down
>because that's probably not right ;)
Well, you can pronounce it "ess-tzet", but you would rather write
"sz" ;) Some people prefer to say "sharp s" to avoid confusion. I
like the little bugger, and it is a shame what the current german
spelling rules do to it... :/
I will not make any linguistic statement about what it _is_ though *cough*
Oliver :)
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