Re: Dutch "ij"

 --- John Cowan wrote:

> > Just curious: are there other examples in the world's languages of similar
> > behaviour?
>
> Absolutely.  Spanish has always treated "ch" and "ll" as single letters
> (despite the recent craven decision by the Royal Academy to change
> traditional sort order, where "cinco" precedes "chile"), but types
> them as two and capitalizes them as "Ch", "Ll".
> Croatian takes the same attitude with "dz" and "dz^", which have
> single-letter correspondents in Cyrillic script.
Of course! But what I had in mind was especially the double capitalization. I
have never heard of a language that writes CHile, LLull, or DZ^ambul...

> An interesting test of single-letterness is seeing what is done in
> crossword puzzles.
Good point.
Although I'm not a person who could be called a passionate crossword solver, my
guess is that in the case of "ij" it depends mostly on how it fits best in the
picture. I believe I have seen both possibilities.

Jan

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