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Funny, but ss and ß are not equivalent, e.g., "Busse" != "Buße".


Depends, actually. In Switzerland, you do write "Buße" as "Busse", despite the different pronounciation indicated with ß. The German written in Switzerland just doesn't know the ß character and uses "ss".

Nonetheless, you're right if you're just looking at German as written and used in Germany (And maybe Austria? Not sure how they handle ß there).


Not the best source of information, but Yahoo answers would say otherwise:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070715142605A...


Yahoo Answers is correct for Switzerland, wrong for Germany and Austria, and wrong for historical uses of ß.




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