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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide - what on earth?.....
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 01:11:35 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9dc6d59-fe68-4776-b4e2-893c35bffb7fn@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rq5q9o$h59$1@gioia.aioe.org>

> There's a lot of B's in there, strange.

This must have been in the original the German sharp s, also called sz: ß (a ligature), which is by non-Germans always misinterpreted as a capital B. There is even one place where it is interpreted as i3.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-01 13:50 The Ultimate Beginner's Guide - what on earth? John McCabe
2020-12-01 15:24 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-01 21:02   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-02 23:27     ` mgr
2020-12-01 16:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-12-01 16:17   ` Luke A. Guest
2020-12-02  9:11   ` AdaMagica [this message]
2020-12-01 19:17 ` Jerry Petrey
2020-12-01 20:23   ` John McCabe
2020-12-27 17:22 ` Brian Drummond
2021-02-27 23:41 ` John McCabe
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