Re: Dutch "ij"

Muke Tever <alrivera@...> writes:
> I don't know about Spanish crossword puzzles, but our Spanish *Scrabble* game
> had a single-letter tile for <Qu>...
Just to clarify: the Real Academia Española decided, in
her wisdom, to forget the rule that "ch" and "ll" are
single letters, so new dictionaries will use the expected
order ("ch" as "c" + "h", not as a different letter, etc.).
The same goes for "rr", though I believe dictionaries have
always treated it as two letters for sorting purposes. We
do have those digraphs in the alphabet taught to children,
though ("a be ce CE-HACHE [or CHE] de e efe ge hache i
jota ka ele ELLE eme ene eñe o pe cu ere ERRE ese te u ve
doble-ve i-griega [or YE] zeta"). "Qu" has never been
taken as a letter on its own right; Scrabble tiles are
supposed to be easy to use but need not be correct. :)
I think the RAE has specific rules about capitalizing
which forbid using capitalized digraphs, and I've never
seen anyone writing those (not even children). Oh, and
diacritics are ignored for sorting purposes. Which is
good, since most often than not they don't mark anything
VERY important...


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/index.html

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