From: Marco Mailand (m_at_abasurf.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 03:03:05 PDT
> > Well, you can pronounce it "ess-tzet",
> double s was sometimes written as "ss" (two round s) and sometimes as
> (approximately) "fs"; the latter was contracted to a ligature, the single
glyph for the sz.
Because of the swiss requirements to have easy access to french accented
letters the
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