transmogrification (was: genre (was: Woody or tinny?))

At 11:07 am -0700 22/5/01, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>On Mon, 21 May 2001, Dan Jones wrote:
>
[snip]
>>
>> Generally I use a bastardised mix of Kirschenbaum and SAMPA, ignoring the
>> use of /&/ for ash, I have a funny keyboard setting and /Ê/ is as easy to
>> type as /a/. No idea about how easy it is to read, tho. I think Ê is in the
>> basic ASCII charset, so it should be easily viewably by everyone.
>>
>> Dan
>
>If you mean f as in the first letter of my name, it's fine. If you mean,
>ash, then I'm seeing it as f-foxtrot.
...and I as upper case e-grave!

But 'twas a regular a-e ligature in Dan's original message; it's been
transmogrified when Frank quotes Dan.

Ray.

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