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Re: Digraphic letters (was: Dutch "ij")

From:Morgan Palaeo Associates <morganpalaeo@...>
Date:Thursday, July 18, 2002, 5:45
Ray Brown wrote:

> Welsh also treats "ch" and "ll" as single letters.
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> Welsh also counts the following as single letters: > dd > ff > ng /N/ [placed between {g} and {h} > ph > rh > th
I think it's worth remembering that the English word "letter" can only be literally translated into languages where one letter = one character. The words for letter in languages without this equivalence are not truly equivalent to the English word. Adrian.

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>