At 11:41 AM 1/29/02, Otto Stolz wrote: >- Do "shamrock", "trefoil", and "clover" denote the same > family of plants?
The same genus. >- Is it really true that a native Englsh speaker does not > link the form the clubs (card suit) symbol with a trefoil? I know people who are so unfamiliar with plants that they would never make the connection. I also remember as a child hearing other children calling the club suit "clovers". >- Is there a difference between the clubs (card suit) symbol > and the (Irish) shamrock symbol, in terms of character > classes -- or, otherwise, could these be treated as glyph > variants? Michael's point about the leaflet tips is a good one, so that a single glyph could not be used both for playing cards and for shamrocks. -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
