> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>> Ah! Right! I always wondered how the glyph came about as the printed
>> 'e' does not look similar. That's right, in German cursive
>> (Sütterlin), the 'e' is very similar to two strokes:
>>
>>
http://www.peter-doerling.de/Lese/Alphabet.htm
>>
>> (Try to write 'Aluminium' in this font -- it's hilarious!)
>>
>> **Henrik
>
>
> Isn't this font a little confusing?
>
> How are distincted "a" from "oc", "cc" from "n", "cn" from "nc" or
> "m", "cv" from "w"... If they can't be, are there words in which
> replacing "a" by "oc" or "m" by "nc" could change the meaning in German?
>