Re: English notation

 > (Nou þat í'v ritn a bit in þ ském í fínd þat þ abréviáxn "w" xud be "wiþ"
 > raþr þan "wé".  it xor helpz to aktýli ýz wynz ském! :-)


IMHO, these abbrevs should have different glyphs, like & for and, @ for
at, and re-enlivening OE crossed thorn (although for 'the' instead of
'that'), and making up a few (like extending the cross to come out and
down and cross that[1], for 'that'). Although this has a number of
obvious problems

Tristan

[1]: ASCII art of the character (apologies if this message displays with
a variable width fount, I seem to always receive mine (and a few others,
but not the majority) in one although i'm using plain text)

      |
      |
  +---+-------\
  |   |        |
  |   +---\    |
   \  |   |   -+-
    \ |   |    |
     \+---/    |
      |
      |
      |

It can all be done in two stokes, and can occupy an M-width. (in fixed
width, you might want to skip the bits to the left of verticle)

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