Kenneth Whistler scripsit: > "The High Ogonek is symptomatic of one of the things > wrong about the character standardization business, > which encourages the blithe perpetuation of mistaken > 'characters' from standard to standard,
"Charadords", one might call them. See http://www.snopes.com/language/mistakes/dord.htm , the best account of "dord" I can find quickly, but with two significant omissions (read it first, then come back here): 1) The entry for "dord" was not mis-sorted; rather, abbreviations were originally to be listed separately, but late in development the decision was taken to merge words and abbrevs into one list. 2) M-W's convention for typing headwords on index cards was to Germanspace them, thus: "D o r d", making the confusion with "D or d" highly plausible, given the erratic spacing behavior of manual typewriters. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
