Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.
From: | Scott W. Hlad <scott@...> |
Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 17:37 |
Bingo!
Scotto
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> Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
>
> > That's the thing...it's wasn't. Umlaut was with a tilde, this
> was clearly
> > a breve, and in a place where you wouldn't have umlaut, example the u in
> > flugzeug (second u that is).
>
> Maybe it was similar to the mark used over Cyrillic i in old-fashioned
> Russian handwriting, that makes it easier to read; it shows which
> up-strokes go together.
>
> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
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