Re: ConGermanicRomanceLang?
| From: | Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 10, 2000, 20:17 |
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On Sunday, December 10, 2000, at 01:21 PM, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 8:51 pm -0800 9/12/00, Danny Wier wrote:
> [....]
> >
> >Verner's Law: a fricative (f, œ, s) between vowels, if it occurs after
> >the stressed vowel, is voiced: (v, •, z).
>
> Hey, I see an apple there!
I see a bullet (•) like you get from hitting option-8.
I'm betting it's eth or thorn (I can never remember which is which). Since
those are fricatives and they exist in the Windows (et al.) extended ASCII
and not in Mac extended ASCII (don't ask me why -- there isn't a day that
goes buy that I wish we could make those 2 letters :^( ).
>
> Is this from an augmented Roman alphabet? And what's that strange symbol
> between {f} and {s}? It looks like a reverse cedilla to me?
It looks like a ligature of oe to me.
>
> Ray.
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Andy
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