Martin Buß

[Svejk]

The above won the 2001 world championship high-jump.
My question is, how would we spell his surname in English.
I worked in Germany(he's German) but I can't recall that 'squiggle'.

[mushroom25]

that's a "scharfes" s - it can be spelled (and pronounced) "ss".

[Svejk]

Thank-you Mushroom. It must be 'Buss' then. I looked at lots of references on google and they all gave that squiggle(scharfe).

[ABerrant]

I'm surprised you did not encounter "eszett" whilst in Germany because it is still in common usage, especially so after the 1996 spelling reform of German.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

[bookbinder]

You can type the ß on your word processor if you hold down Alt then enter 993 on your numeric keypad.

[heathfield]

Svejk - if you worked in Germany you must have seen the road signs for 'pedestrians', i.e. "Fußgänger".

[craft1948]

I always mucked up me umlauts...........