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aeve890 • today at 1:22 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

>βehemoth

How I read that? Like Ssehemoth or like Behemoth?


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BenzeneDream • today at 2:42 PM

That's clearly a voiced bilabial fricative... so like a soft /b/ sound!

sir_eliah • today at 1:26 PM

I'm glad you asked! Obviously you have to check the code table and you can see that's a Greek beta, not German Eszett. \s

  In [1]: ord("β")
  Out[1]: 946

  In [2]: ord("ß")
  Out[2]: 223
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