>>The German cursive "e" used to look something like a cursive "n" and
>>came to be written over the vowel. ...
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> 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:
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http://www.peter-doerling.de/Lese/Alphabet.htm
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> (Try to write 'Aluminium' in this font -- it's hilarious!)
Indeed, but the strangest thing IMHO is that the _r_ looks
like my cursive "r" rotated 180 degrees.
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