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From: gmb@natcorp.ox.ac.uk (Glynis Baguley)
Subject: Re: Name of OE digraph?
Message-ID: <1995May11.170613.1410@onionsnatcorp.ox.ac.uk>
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 17:06:13 GMT
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In article <3ogk29$a30@news.ycc.yale.edu> servidea@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Jay Servidea a/k/a James) writes:
> While trying to translate a medieval Latin manuscript fragment for a 
> friend, I ran across the dipthong OE (printed as one character, the O 
> stuck to the E). My friend found it to be curious and asked me what it 
> was called.  I know that the AE dipthong is called "ash," but is there a 
> name for OE?

These are ligatures, not diphthongs (except in popular usage). The AE
ligature is sometimes called `ash', which is the name of an Old
English letter written thus (like the IPA character), but that name
doesn't seem particularly appropriate when the ligature is used for
other purposes. There isn't an equivalent name for the OE ligature,
that I'm aware of, whatever it's used for.


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