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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Languages written without diacritics
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In article <57jhjb$t41$1@comet3.magicnet.net>,
Richard K Harrison <hrick@magicnet.net> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff (deb5@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:
>: 	Please see Richter's original post in which he explicitly allows
>: an exception for unnaturalised foreign borrowings.
>
>In poetry, an acute accent mark indicates that a normally silent 'e'
>should be pronounced -- as in "wingd" versus "winged."

Charming.  I'll remember that if I ever write poetry.

>The Brits wrote "foetus" and "faeces" with ligatures until recently,
>I believe.

Swell for them.  Americans don't I can't imagine they every will.


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