Re: USAGE: French letter U WITH GRAVE

At 13:59 19/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>According to the Alvestrand report,=20
>http://www.alvestrand.no/domen/ietf/lang-chars.txt ,
>French orthography makes use of =F9 (U WITH GRAVE).
>What is the purpose of this letter?
>
        It is only used to disambiguate the conjunction "ou" 'or' from the
adverb "o=F9" 'where'. Just a writing habit that is losing its role (I know=
 no
other word that uses =F9).

>--=20
>John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
>        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
>        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
>                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
>
>
                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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