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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by davidp on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:34PM (#8038503)
It might depend on where you live. I took a recent trip through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and I noticed that Austrian street signs tended to use "Straße" while German and Swiss tended to use "Strasse".

OTOH it could also be just spending priorities of updating street signs vs. other things.

I knew nothing about the phasing-out of ß until reading the comments on this article.

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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by taejo on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @06:14AM (#8041348)
> German and Swiss tended to use "Strasse".

In Switzerland, "ss" is standard (Duden says: "In der Schweiz kann das ß generell durch ss ersetzt werden <§ 25 E2>.") I haven't seen "Strasse" on signs in Germany, but there might be regional variation (since street signs are a local-government responsibility)

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