Editing SS (section)

=== Standardization of use ===
The pre-1996 German use of {{angbr|ß}} was codified by the eighteenth-century grammarians [[Johann Christoph Gottsched]] (1748) and [[Johann Christoph Adelung]] (1793) and made official for all German-speaking countries by the [[German Orthographic Conference of 1901]]. In this orthography, the use of {{angbr|ß}} was modeled after the use of [[long s|long]] and "round"-s in Fraktur. {{angbr|ß}} appeared both word internally after long vowels and also in those positions where Fraktur required the second s to be a "round" or "final" s, namely the ends of syllables or the ends of words.<ref name="walder"/>{{rp|217-18}} In his ''[[Deutsches Wörterbuch]]'' (1854) [[Jacob Grimm]] called for {{angbr|ß}} or {{angbr|sz}} to be written for all instances of Middle and Old High German etymological {{angbr|z}} (e.g., {{lang|de|eß}} instead of {{lang|de|es}} from {{langx|gmh|ez}}); however, his etymological proposal could not overcome established usage.<ref name="young"/>{{rp|269}}

In [[Austria-Hungary]] prior to the German Orthographic Conference of 1902, an alternative rule formulated by  [[Johann Christian August Heyse]] in 1829 had been officially taught in the schools since 1879, although this spelling was not widely used. Heyse's rule matches current usage after the [[German orthography reform of 1996]] in that {{angbr|ß}} was only used after long vowels.<ref name="walder"/>{{rp|219}}