Re: CHAT: C in Greek Alphabet

On 4/10/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Mark J. Reed writes:
> >...
> > Anywhere there's a
> > double-S, the first is long and the second short: "necefsary",
> > "difsolve", etc.
> >...
>
> I don't think so.
It wasn't an opinion or a rule, but an observation about the
Declaration of Independence document.  "When in the course of human
events, it becomes necefsary..."

> Also see The Internet, which is never lying:
>
> http://www.unknown.nu/misc/declaration
>
> 'dissolve' also has double long s in that text.
Sure, but that's text that someone typed in.  If you check out an
image of the actual handwritten document, e.g.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/readings/declaration_image.jpg

you'll see the long-short alternation in "necessary", "dissolve", etc.
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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