Re: Gaelic spelling conventions (was: Thorn and Eth)

Thomas Leigh scripsit:

> What's "worse" about it? The fact that (I believe due to printing) the
> practice of placing a dot above a letter to indicate lenition ended up
> being replaced by the practice of writing an "h" after the letter? How
> is sticking an extra symbol afer any worse than sticking an extra symbol
> on top?
AFAIK it was the shift from Gaelic type styles to Antiqua/Latin ones
that generated the shift.  My copy of Dineen uses Gaelic type styles
and the dot exclusively for all Irish text, though of course English
text is in Antiqua.  There is no reason why legible Antiqua fonts
can't be made that have dotted consonants.  Just another typewriter hack,
I fear.

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