In the German shift, northern speakers came to place s’s where before they had put t’s, and to put f’s where previously they had employed p’s.
In the German shift, northern speakers came to place s’s where before they had put t’s, and to put f’s where previously they had employed p’s. These changes were of course too late to affect English, and thus explain the differences in many modern English and German words, such as water and wasser and open and offen.
