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Re: sound change question

From:Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 7:28
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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Sound Change Question


> Yes, in at least one work that I know of-- to distinguish bilabial approx. > /w/ < *w from fricative /B/ < *b also written with "w" (the author should > have used "v", but being Dutch, it didn't look right to him, I guess). > But's it's VERY difficult to reproduce on the keyboard, and I don't think > there's a Unicode for it.
I'm sure there's a Unicode for it: w~ (0x0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W + 0x0303 COMBINING TILDE). In an HTML page, you can type w&#X0303; or w&#771;. If you're using Word (or another wordprocessor with a character map), you can easily add a shortcut for the combining tilde, which you type after the "w". That doesn't look nice in uppercase, however. Except perhaps with a very well designed OpenType font. -- Jean-François Colson jfcolson (a) belgacom.net

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