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Re: Orthography help needed

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 19:49
MJR> The characters are edh, eng, thorn, and theta, respectively.

Joe> You know, I don't really like calling it 'edh', because that diagraph is
Joe> ufamiliar to English, and that's not the sound it has represented in
Joe> English either (at least not consistently).  I really do prefer 'eth'.

Fair enough, "eth" it is.  I must admit, however, that I am yielding not
to your argument, but to the fact that its official name in Unicode is
"eth" (or, more completely, "LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH").  We can't get
anywhere if we don't have a common terminology, and if there's a
standard, by gosh let's use it, like it or not. :)

> In my opinion, <þ> would be better than theta, being both in Latin-1, > and from the Roman alphabet (of the Germanic flavour).
Indeed. Thank you. -Mark