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What caused “ss” to gain popularity over “ß” in the 19th century?
From Google Books' Ngram Viewer:
Notice that the "hasst" form gained popularity towards the end of the 19th century, only to drop again in favor of "haßt" later on. I noticed the same pattern on ...
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Why is it nummerieren but numerisch?
Neue Rechtschreibung changed numerieren to nummerieren. This is not optional, so numerieren is incorrect now. How come numerisch did not change?
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Is it acceptable to omit umlauts and put an extra 'e' instead?
It's a pain when you haven't got a German keyboard to figure these characters out.
Is it acceptable from a style perspective?
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Zusammen oder getrennt? Gibt es eine Regel?
Es gibt viele Wörter im Deutschen, deren exakte Schreibweise sich meiner Kenntnis schon immer entzogen haben. Das größte Problem ist dabei die Frage: zusammen oder getrennt?
Ich nenne mal ein paar ...
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Is there a rule that dictates whether to use the eszett (scharfes S) or double s?
It's clear in the case of compound nouns, double s should be used e.g. Bundesstraße, but with other words I cannot see a pattern.
To me it appears to be used somewhat randomly, e.g.:
besser
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