Dear Sue Lynn, About the "Old English language" not having any "S"'s and that they were all "F"'s and that the "F"'s were changed to "S" when the language was "more Americanized". Someone gave you some wrong info. Up until the early 1800's, double S's within words (not those at the beginning and usually not those at the end) were written in a fashion that is hard to describe without seeing them and I can't reproduce them on a keyboard/typewriter. But folks today who are unfamiliar with the history of writing almost always confuse these with a double F. It DOES look like a written, lower-case f. But it is NOT. That is just the way double S's were written then. All too often, I see printed info today by unlearned persons who print out a double S as a double F. Our style of writing has been changing steadily for hundreds of years. It is still changing today, perhaps more rapidly than during any other period--because of the rapid techo advances caused by computers. As for the language changing, yes the English language has also been changing and still is. Few languages remain stagnant and unchanging. Even the meaning of words are changing. But this has nothing to do with the double S's. We have always had double S's in the English language, even Old English and before that, in Saxon (the predecessor of Old English). What has changed is the way we write it. About the Sasser's fleeing England and going to Germany--no. Enough said.