Re: Off topic: type

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> Do any of our linguistically learned members know if Word includes among
> its numerous special characters one for the yogh? That's the character
> used in Middle English (and Scots?) to represent "voiced and voiceless
> velar and palatal fricatives," written in modern English as "gh." It
> looks something like the number 3, which is what my author used. It
> doesn't seem to be among XyW's Speedo characters, and I figured as I
> would have to convert the paper back to Word anyway, I'd wait till I was
> there to insert it. But now I cannot find it there either.

I can't find it in Word either. Make up an HTML code: &yogh; and let the poor
typesetter worry about it.

I repeat: &yogh; &yogi; would be something else entirely.

>
> On a slightly similar tack, a couple of days ago, Leslie wrote:
> "an entire generation has now grown up assuming that one should
> superscript the `st' in 21st century--something that previously had not
> been seen since the end of calligraphy." Well, perhaps not in English.
> But French, as Leslie knows as well as, or better than, I do, has been
> using superscript for ordinal indicators since at least 1960.

Oui. Mais, naturellement, les francais sont toujours les francais.

"They take cash, which is just as good as money."

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