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Re: Russian letter names was Re: Words about Conscripts

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Thursday, January 2, 2003, 22:50
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 -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas --Scottish proverb