The oldest Hungarian typewriter I have seen had the one key with lower case
"umlaut a" which is not prt of the Hungarian character set.*, **
Germanteachers substitute "ess-tzet" with "13" when they use
Hungarian typewriters to type handouts.


                                                       Frank Nagy

Remarks
* The "umlaut a" is usually retained in the Hungarian family names of
German origin. The "13" became "sz" because in Hungarian "s" is pronounced
like English "sh" and "sz" denotes the sound "s" in English "say".

** System: vowels accented, consonants as combined letters:
A a' b c cs d dz dzs e [e:] e' f g gy i i' j k l ly m n o o' o: o" p (q) r
s sz t u u' u: u" v (w) (x) (y) z zs.

The 'q' of foreign words is usually transcripted as 'kv'. The 'w' is
retained sometimes, but it is pronounced like 'v', 'x' is retained but
often substituted by 'ksz', 'y' at the end of old family names is the
gentry 'i'. The 'e:' is used only in linguistic literature, because the
correspoinding sound was not present in the Northeastern dialect on which
the Hungarian spelling was formed in the 19th century.
                                                       N. F.