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OT: NB as Xy
- Subject: OT: NB as Xy
- From: "Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:28:36 -0400
** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"
on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:48:49 -0400
> Y diaeresis is rather rare; I think it
> is used in Turkish or some of the Balkan languages.
A diaeresis recognizes two adjacent vowels as separate syllables
-- and that's the meaning of the diacritical mark. The English
letter "y" derives from the Dutch "ij" (both vowels. pronounced
ee-ye). Note that y-diaeresis *looks like* cursive "ij" -- no
accident.
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Robert Holmgren
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