At 03:54 AM 12/18/2003, Peter Kirk wrote:

Did you see my posting with the extract:

TÜRK *MİLLÎ* KODLANDIRMA SİSTEMİ. *...* . *Millî* Kodlandırma Sisteminin temelini ...

This is from a Turkish government site which comes up when I do a Google search on "millî", but the site itself doesn't seem to be available. You will find that the spellings "millî" (19,600 Google matches) and "milli" (709,000 matches, but not all are Turkish) are interchangeable, but "millı" is rare (52 matches) and so probably an error. Note the following for "National Education Ministry":


"Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı" - 22,100 matches
"Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı" - 1,270 matches
"Millı Eğitim Bakanlığı" - 3 matches

My Turkish-English dictionary gives only "milli". For the grammar and orthography, http://www.cromwell-intl.com/turkish/Index.html is a basic reference.

I am very wary about relying on web resources for such things, since one is often dealing with pages that are working within technical limitations and so do not reflect traditional typographic practice. But thanks for the information (I missed the earlier message because I have not been following this thread very closely): I'll remember to look into this next time I am up at the university library.


John Hudson

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