Re: Russian letter names was Re: Words about Conscripts

Hello,

> > Then there were three other letters that were also dropped
> from the alphabet,
> > but I don't know their names; one looks like a theta and
> represented |f|, one
> > was a barred soft sign for |je|, and one was like a "i" for |i|.
>
> fita and jat', but I don't know the name of Ukrainian-style i.
It's "i desyaterichnoje" ('i having to do with 10), as opposed to the
now-used 'i vosmyerichnoye' ('i having to do with 8'), because with a
titlo above it represented 10 before the adoption of Arabic numerals,
and latter represented 8.

Pavel
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