The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography

Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by rb2k_ on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:47PM (#14691658)

There are tons according to http://www.wordmine.info/Search.aspx?slang=de&stype=words-wi...

FRAKTIONSZWANG FREIHANDELSZONE KONFISZIEREN [...]

A lot of them are combined, but still quite a few 'regular' ones

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by cbmueller on Monday July 03, 2017 @06:12PM (#14691832)

Here is the full list of non compounded words containing an "sz".

Abszeß - Adoleszenz - Disziplin - Eszett - Faszie - Faszination - Fluoreszenz - Koaleszenz - Konfiszierung - lasziv - Lumineszenz - Obszönität - omniszient - Oszillation - phosphoresziere - Plebiszit - Proszenium - Rekognoszierung - Rekonvaleszent - Szene - viszeral

Most of these actually are of latin origin. My favorite is obviously "Abszeß" - probably the only word in the german language that will show a non compounded co-existence of "sz" and "ß".

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by filmor on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:16AM (#14693685)

It did, 20 years ago ;)

Nowadays it's written Abszess as the e is short.

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by pluma on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:49AM (#14694500)

FWIW, in all of them the "sz" spans a syllable boundary (yes, even "Szene" although I despise the syllabic "S" with a vengeance because it's so awkward).

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