German ß (scharfes S)

[Tiberius Clodius Corvinus]

:lol: ... to confuse things even more: the (hole-less) donut is called "Berliner" only by non-native Berliners and most of the rest of Germany. Native Berliners call(ed) it a "Pfannkuchen" (pancake). which is funny in so far as in turn a "Pfannkuchen" is a (flat) pancake to almost the entire rest of Germany. Berliners again in turn call this flat cake an "Eierkuchen" (means literally omelette, but is a pancake).

not bad, eh?

uh, well, lingual culture ... :roll: ;-) )

I quite like the idea of the concept of Eßex ;-) ) Difficult to fathom the reasoning behind Rißtissen, though, although I did hear that place names were an exception to the rule(s).

yep, names were left untouched regardless of rules ... in case of Essex, the ss was actually correct, as the initial e is a short vowel.