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Re: Yet another ASCII-IPA scheme...

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Saturday, November 10, 2001, 5:31
Ar 22:48 09/11/01 -0500, bhac Herman Miller le scríobh chugam:

>One of my old languages, Devérrin, has an actual velar (not velarized) >lateral. Since I didn't have an IPA symbol for it (this was before the >small-capital-L started showing up on the IPA charts), I used the pound >sign {£}, which at least looks like some variety of {L}.
Not many people actually realise this, but it *is* an L, just with a line through it: it's from the word `Livre'. Good choice. K. -- Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmgaughan/ I can decide what I give / But it's not up to me / What I get given -=Bjork=-