--- Nik Taylor wrote:
> The Kassi syllabry does kind of the opposite, counting diacritics as
> letters. They're referred to as "child letters" or "weak letters" as
> opposed to "mother letters" or "strong letters", but for the purposes of
> alphabetization, one treats them as if they followed the character
> rather than being part of it.
I like that idea!
BTW I've never been able to find out how to convince my database programs to
place letters with diacritics where I want them to. I hate it when words
starting with "s" are mixed up with words starting with "š"...
> Does "ij" have a special name in Dutch?
Yes, but only in order to distinguish it from others. Thus:
ij: "lange ij"
ei: "korte ei"
y: "Griekse ij" / "y-grèc".
Jan
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