Re: NB as Xy

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:
> Well, I couldn't resist that. For the record: Thorn is the letter, used in
> some Scandinavian languages (definitely Icelandic; not sure off the top of
> my head which others) and Old and Middle English to represent the sound of
> th in the word thorn (in OE, at least), hence its name. IIRC, it is also
> used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent one of the th
> sounds (there are two in English: this and though).

I thought, from crossword puzzles, that that was "edh."
> Eszet (a name I confess I had never heard or seen before; in typography
> it's sometimes called Sharp ess) is the character used in modern German
> for double ess

Gee, that one I also recall by a different name--bloss or something like that?



Harry Binswanger
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