Sch (trigraph)
Sch is the
trigraph used in
German to represent //, the sound of the 'sh' in the English word "fi
sh".
In
Middle English also,
sch was the most common grapheme for the same sound it has in German (//), 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 quadrigraph
tsch becomes // — the sound of the 'ch' in the English word "
chips".
