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Re: Greek letter names (was Greek & Latin vowels etc)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 21:58
On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 09:04  AM, Ray Brown wrote:
>> Eeeep confusion alert! >> Since |S-acute| is usually used in Semitic linguistics for the Hebrew >> |sin|, Lateral-S, using it for Emphatic-S is cognitively dissonant. >> :-P
> I wonder how many people actually even read it as s-acute. I happen to > read your mail on a web-browser earlier today (Mozilla in Windows) and > the > darn signs appeared as pilcrows! But back on the Mac this evening the > misuded s-acutes have reappeared.
What's a pilcrow? <imagining a crow that rolls itself up like a pillbug...> -Stephen (Steg) "this is what is done to one the king desires to honor!"

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>CHAT of pillbugs and pilcrows (was: Greek letter names etc)