Talk:Testimonial letter from Thomas Esser

The author presents his surname in two different ways, Essex and Esser. How are we to choose? A couple of factors point toward Esser:

1. He may live in Massachusetts, where Essex might be a better bet, but he is from Germany, where Esser is a fairly common name.

2. His signature looks more like Esser than Essex.

It does not look like a mistake that's easy to make, ie the "r" and the "x" are not particularly close together on the keyboard, so perhaps this "typo" is intentional, and he is transitioning to a more Anglo name. -- doofus-9 02:41, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

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No, his name is neither Essex nor Esser.

If you look at his signature again, he signs as "Eßer" - the "ß" is called a 'sharp S' in German and is also pronounced that way, ie as in "suck", but the US keyboards do not have a "ß" so Germans typically use "ss" instead. --Rudra (talk) 03:06, 23 December 2023 (UTC)