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Re: French spelling scheme

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Monday, May 7, 2001, 17:08
Weiben Wange wrote:
>Actually, just last week I saw a Hannoverian legal text published in the >1820's, printed in Fraktur with tiny superscript e's over umlauted vowels. >I wish I could send a picture. One of the cool, if obscure, things you can >find at the New York Public Library. In case you didn't know, ae, ue, oe >are still used as altertnate spellings for the corresponding umlaut vowels. > You sometimes see them in e-mails or on the web, where it's can be hard >to type umlauts (for those of us with non-German keyboards at least ;).
And of course, the digraphs in -e are very common in people's names. Joseph Goebbels is a well-known example. Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.