Re: OT: Semi-OT: Unicode keyboard

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"'.


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