Abstract
Abstract In June 2017, a new letter was officially introduced into the German language: the capital eszett <ẞ>. Following a suggestion of the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung (Council for German Orthography), the letter was included in the revised version of the official spelling rules, and also the new 2017 edition of the Duden mentions the capital eszett. The present article investigates the reasons underlying this orthographic change.
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