Re: CHAT: XS vs. Kirshenbaum vs. Who-knows-what
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 17:45 |
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At 12:38 30.1.2004, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > and the shape of the letter 'Q' is like an 'O' with a line
> > added.
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>Yet does not represent an O, or even a backwards c, with a line added.
The logic is that a lower-case _o_ with a hook below is
usual for [O] in Germanic historical linguistics. JCW has
probably seen that symbol used for [Q] quite often!
/BP 8^)
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