Sch (trigraph)
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Sch is the trigraph used in German to represent /ʃ/, the sound of the 'sh' in the English word "fish".
In Middle English also, sch was the most common grapheme for the same sound it has in German (/ʃ/), replacing sc in earlier Old English orthography; but it was replaced in turn by the normal spelling sh adopted for this sound in Modern English.
In German, when a 't' is added in front of it, the resulting tetragraph tsch becomes /tʃ/ — the sound of the 'ch' in the English word "chips". Similarly, German adds a 'd' in front of it, resulting in the tetragraph dsch, to produce the sound represented by the English letter 'j', /dʒ/, as in the word Dschungel (jungle).
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