On 9 Feb 2016, at 05:31, Asmus Freytag (t) <[email protected]> wrote:

> Without scouring the book I don't know whether there's another place in it 
> where something's unquestioningly the prime. In that case we could figure out 
> whether its appearance is simply the way that font does it. Alternatively, if 
> making double prime look different from two single primes, perhaps that's 
> common enough across fonts, and would help to lay any doubts to rest -   but 
> so far, what I see is a spacing acute.

Well, Asmus, it isn’t one. We linguists have been taught it’s the prime. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)#Use_in_linguistics


Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/


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