Re: Scripts

On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 11:46, Tim May wrote:
> Tristan McLeay writes:
>  > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 11:35, Tim May wrote:
>  > > Tristan McLeay writes:
>  > >  > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 06:07, Ray Brown wrote:
>  > >  > > On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 09:49 , Nik Taylor wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  > > And þ survived in English right up till the advent of printing.  Abrigon
>  > >
>  > >  > hand-written texts with very y-looking Þ's. Generally with an extension
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Now this is interesting.  Why are there two different thorns here?  Is
>  > > Tristan's even a thorn at all?  And how do these show up on Macs?
>  > >
>  > > þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ
>  >
>  > Simple: capital and lowercase. 'Þæt' is how you say the ancestor to
>  > 'that' at the start of a sentence; elsewhere you would write 'þæt'. I'm
>  > assuming it'll show up properly on a Mac assuming it can deal with the
>  > character sets nicely.
>  >
>  > Tristan.
>
> D'oh.  Obvious when you think about it, but I'd never considered what
> the diference between an upper and lower case thorn was.  Does eth
> look different too?
Yeah, a capital eth is Ð. The curved look of the lowercase eth (ð) comes
about, I think, because of the way Irish scribes wrote lowercase D's so
that the looked like an eth without the cross.

Tristan.

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