On 15/07/2003 08:18, John Cowan wrote:
... Or consider Fraktur I and J capitals.
The name of Rudolf von Ihering, the great 19th-century German
jurisprudent, is frequently transliterated (there is no other word)
"Jhering"....
It is still common e.g. on road signs in Germany today to see capital I
represented, in a sans-serif script, by a glyph looking more like J.
Confusing at first, but at least it is distinct from small L. I'm not
sure if there are actually separate I and J glyphs in such a script. But
then J was originally a glyph variant of I, and only quite recently in
English have they been fully distinguished as letters. In Italian the
distinction is still not clear, I understand, and the same town name can
be spelled as Iesi or Jesi.
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Peter Kirk
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