Ray Brown wrote:
>> The normative cedilla has a vertical descender
>
>
> Normative? Who sets the norm? I must admit that most cedillas I've seen
> have the stroke slanting thus /
>
> The word is Spanish for "zedlet" (or "zeelet"), i.e. little zed/zee. It
> did begin its life as a small hand-written Z, something like ʒ, beneath
> the C, so the slanting descender makes historical sense.
>
Actually the original "zedilla" was like an upside-down ʒ.
The association with the third letter of the alphabet is
secondary.
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