Re: OT: Semi-OT: Unicode keyboard

Muke Tever wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:38:37 -0700, Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
> wrote:
>
>>  From the Wikipedia article you linked:
>>
>> "The character yogh - pronounced either [joUk], [joUg], [joU] or [joUx]
>> - came into Old English spelling via Irish. It stood for /g/ and its
>> various allophones - including the velar fricative [G] (voiced [x]) and
>> [g] - as well as the phoneme /j/ (y in modern English spelling)."
>>
>> I don't see the problem. I'm not going to clutter a list of the names of
>> the various characters in the keymap with an essay on the history of one
>> letter.
>
> An essay on the history of the letter isn't necessary, but the yogh is
> related to an Irish form of the letter <g> (as the article says), not
> anything like <gh>.
>
> 'Irish "gh"' should either read 'Irish "g"' or perhaps better 'Middle
> English "gh"'.
Fixed.