- Sch (trigraph)
Sch is the trigraph used in German to represent /IPA|ʃ/, the sound of the 'sh' in the English word "fish". It was also used in medieval Polish orthography.
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Middle English also, sch was the most common grapheme for the same sound it has in German (/IPA|ʃ/), replacing sc in earlierOld English orthography; but it was replaced in turn in most words by the spelling sh adopted for this sound in Modern English. Except for those words based on foreign names in which the foreign orthography and pronunciation are kept, words retaining sch in Modern English have a Latin influenced spelling in which the ch portion represents (/IPA|k/). An exception is the word "" (from the Late Latin "schedula") where the pronunciation of "sch" is (/IPA|ʃ/) or (/IPA|sk/) depending on the dialect.In German, when a 't' is added in front of it, the resulting tetragraph tsch becomes /IPA|tʃ/ — the sound of the 'ch' in the English word "chips". Similarly, German adds a 'd' uses a tetragraph dsch in loanwords, to denote the sound represented by the English letter 'j', /IPA|dʒ/, as in the word "Dschungel" (jungle).
An orthographic sch also occurs in Dutch, but as s + ch, not as a true trigraph, Thus it's pronounced as a cluster: IPA|/sx/, or often in
West Flemish , IPA|/sk/.ee also
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