Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

Joe wrote:
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> From: "Joe Fatula" <fatula3@...>
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> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 8:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)
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>>From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
>>Subject: Yogh (was Re: y sound)
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>>>Tristan (lover of dead characters. Hwair is another good one, though
>>>it's only used for transliterations of Gothic. I may have to fix
>>>that...)
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>>Yogh, thorn, edh, and ash are great, but wynn looks too much like p in
>>handwriting.  Hwair is a neat one, but I'm not sure it'd have too much use
>>in English.  But I'm certainly a lover of dead characters as well.  Though
>>in most circles, people would think of Romeo as a dead character...
>>
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> Maybe we should standardise list English and readopt the þorn and the eð.  I
> like the wynn, but it could just be a p.  And, um, stupid question, but
> what's a hwair?
Something that grows from the top of a hwead? ;)

It looks like an H with a curled right leg. On the capital, the right
leg curls up (in a sort of a U shape) and ends about at the midline. On
the lowercase, the base of the "h" is extended so that it looks like an
"s" on its side.

The uppercase character is 01F6 in Unicode, and the lowercase is 0195.
You can see look them up in this chart:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf