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Re: OT: Bioscope (was: Marx Brothers)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, May 15, 2003, 18:06
En réponse à Roger Mills :


>Maybe (1) to show that the -y _is_ a vowel?? I don't think final "y" occurs >normally in French (??)
Oh yes it did, especially in the fancy orthographies "en vogue" in the Middle and Early Modern French period :))) . At that time, it was fashionable to write everything with "y" where "i" was meant, even as a vowel. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.