Re: USAGE: OE pt was Re: USAGE:Yet another few questions about Welsh.

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> IIUC, it was simply that when confronted with this unwriteable phoneme,
> one group of scribes (mostly Irish/Celtic, I understand) put a slash
> through <d> (with, then, was of course curvy like an eth is still),
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My d is still curved like an eth! Well, except at the start of words
anyway... when I want to write nicely my handwriting becomes all curves,
and no d is safe. Being a mathematician, it presents a few problems when
dealing with differentiation,... I have to be careful to draw my ds
straight there unless I mean a partial derivative.