Re: Accents
| From: | jogloran <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 0:45 |
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My theory is that this use of the # sign is derived from the L B BAR
SYMBOL at U-2114, or a script version of it. Older Danish cookbooks
(and my grandmother's handwritten recipes) use a symbol for a pound
that looks like a script lowercase u with the right tail going back
across the legs --- that would be an intermediate stage.
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Interesting theory, but where would the other bar come from?
Incidentally, the symbol that I think you're describing is the
ligature {is} in my conscript.
Imperative
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