sharp s

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Calque of German scharfes S

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sharp s (plural sharp s's)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.
    Synonyms: eszett, double S
    Hypernym: s
    Coordinate terms: long s, descending s, medial s; short s, round s, terminal s
    • 1991, TEXT Technology, page 13:
      A minor but convenient feature is the ability to include words with accent marks (Umlauts, sharp s’s) (ß) into the text. The accent entry utility provides a quick and useful way of adding diacritical marks or sharp s’s in German) (ß) into the text.
    • 2000, African Philosophy, page 186:
      That there are sudden and unexplained changes of typeface (on p. 121) or that Greek betas appear in lieu of German sharp s’s could be construed as small oversights.
    • 2004, ““Women, their mindes are crystall”: Christopher Newstead’s Arguments for the Superiority of Women”, in Susan Gushee O’Malley, editor, “Custome Is an Idiot”: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women, Urbana, Ill., Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117:
      The beginning of each chapter has been silently regularized (e.g., “REligion” becomes “Religion”), as have words with tildes (e.g., “burthe~” becomes “burthen” and “woma~” becomes “woman”) and sharp s’s (e.g., “amißa” becomes “amissa”).

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