Off topic: type

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

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.
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. Case in
point: The Préface to my 1960 Grand Larousse encyclopédique
begins, "Si l'honnête homme du XX≪MD+SU≫e≪MD-SU≫ siècle..." And both
the book I worked on for CUP and some others that I did for the Met. Mus.
of Art about the same time were full of references to books with
quelquechosième siècle in their titles, and all such centuries
were written with superior e or ème when the number was
numeralized. I rather think German supescripts the e<> of Jahrhundert
numerals too, at least when it's not written in Franktur.
Patricia