Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

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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)


> From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
> Subject: Yogh (was Re: y sound)
>
>
> > 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...)
>
> 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...
>
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?

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