"Which word, beginning with E and originally German, has now been adopted into English with a meaning of ""inferior or fake""?"
Ersatz good Ersatz good An ersatz () good is a substitute good, especially one that is considered inferior to the good it replaces. It has particular connotations of wartime usage. "Ersatz" is a German word literally meaning "substitute" or "replacement". Although it is used as an adjective in English, it is a noun in German. In German orthography noun phrases formed are usually represented as a single word, forming compound nouns such as "Ersatzteile" ("spare parts") or "Ersatzspieler" ("substitute player"). While the term used in English often implies that the substitution is of unsatisfactory or inferior quality compared with the "real thing",
English terms with diacritical marks word processors also had character set limitations, and confusion due to typesetting convention was exacerbated in the character coded environment due to limitations of the ASCII character set. English terms with diacritical marks Some English language terms have letters with diacritical marks. Most of the words are loanwords from French, with others coming from Spanish, Portuguese, German, or other languages. Some are however originally English, or at least their diacritics are. Proper nouns are not generally counted as English terms except when accepted into the language as an eponym – such as Geiger–Müller tube, or the English terms roentgen after