Re: Eng (was: Name mangling)

On Mar 11, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Ray Brown wrote:
> The 'enlarged eng' or 'incomplete D' form has been in use for at least
> three quarters of a century (see above) and IIRC the 'uppercase N with
> bow'
>  has been around since the earlier years of the last century also.
> These
> are established, I would have thought, by usage.
> If you read my mail properly, you will see that - tho originally I had
> forgotten (senior moment) the 'incomplete D' version - what I was
> complaining about is a form that resembles *lower case h*, i.e. it has
> an
> *ascender*.  No other uppercase letter has an ascender.
> I was complaining about this form, _not_ because I dislike it (which is
> irrelevant), but because:
> - there are already two other forms, with at least three quarters of a
> century of tradition behind them: we do not need a _third_ variant;
> - it has an ascender and does not give the appearance of an uppercase
> letter.
> - it is actually _smaller_ than the lowercase letter and appears
> written
> superscript.
That's so weird...  on my mac, i haven't noticed any capital engs
coming out as superscript |h|s, and i assume i would notice since i use
those superscript |h|s to transliterate silent |h|s in Hebrew!
Some of your complaints about it though remind me of why i don't like
the uppercase thorn letter :-P .


-Stephen (Steg)
  "quit it with the damn schwa already! i hate phonetics!"
      - my friend e
        (back when we took intro to linguistics together)