Re: lunch time

Padraic Brown scripsit:
>
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > andrew wrote:
> > > Perch llo h-+on nefent manugar rhen di sew wigin:
> >
> > I have to know, what's the -+ mean?
>
> Like me, your email reader apparently doesn't handle accented letters very
> well.  The -+ means that the following vowel ought to have a circumflex
> over it.  (In Brithenig, that would be a teithith, or little roof.)
> Technically, it's supposed to distinguish a long vowel; but I'm told that
> the distinction is purely orthographical.
Well, actually the + means circumflex.  The - is just a hyphen, used
after h-prefix.

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