Dutch language

["William H. TeBrake" tebrake@xxxxxxxx]

Robert,
 All along I thought that I was the only person reading the XyWrite
list who had any knowledge of the obscure Dutch language. You are of
course right about the ij/y(diaeresis) evidence from the nineteenth
century. In my own work, I have been reading a fair amount of
fourteenth and fifteenth century Dutch for a book I am writing on land
drainage and its management in late-medieval Holland. In some of the
archival pieces I have read, I've encountered some variations of ij,
such as eij and ey in words rendered as mij or wij today.
Best regards,
Bill
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William H. TeBrake      E-MAIL:  tebrake@xxxxxxxx
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