Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.

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.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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