Tex Texin wrote: > The point that interests me in all of this, is even though the phone > books sort this way, it seems not too many Norwegians (among > this crowd anyway) would think of looking for Mller after Mylius.
Probably, in most towns, all people whose name begins by Mu-, Mü-, and My- are on the same page, so they would be found anyway. In Italy, we have an encyclopedia that sorts J together with I. This encyclopedia is found in all public libraries, and practically everybody has used it several times back at school time. But no Italian I asked ever noticed this unusual I/J unification, and most of them just replied "So what?". And this is not surprising, considering that the practical impact is very little: anyway, words beginning by J are more or less in the middle of volume I~K. So, it is not at all surprising that you or other people on this list know such subtleties much better than average native users. _ Marco
