AUGH! It’s not just a cry of distress, it’s an anglicization. Why do we see lots of names ending in -augh? Baugh, Grumbaugh, Brumbaugh?

What on earth is going on with those letters? The s looks like an f !It sure does. I hope you never need those last couple of sentences. Old

German has two variants for ch, depending on whether the surrounding letters are ‘bright’ or ‘dark’.   If you say “ee, ey”  versus “o, oo, a

Ä, Ö and Ü are simple variations of familiar letters, but the ​​fourth letter that German has that we don’t is the real kicker:  ß  Eszett

One says he's German. The other says he's Danish. They're twins. It actually makes sense, but there's history to understand.