On 2016-09-19, Christoph Päper <christoph.pae...@crissov.de> wrote: > If > > - encyclopedia > - encyclopædia > - encyclopaedia > > are all legal spellings of the same word in a writing system, a useful > linguistic definition of grapheme should ensure that all three variants have > the same number of graphemes.
Such a bizarre definition, which would also entail "color/colour", "fulfill/fulfil", "sulfur/sulphur" having the same number of graphemes, would break the first three of your rules of thumb: > - … whatever goes into a single box in a crossword puzzle. > - … whatever gets transposed if you reverse a word or generate an anagram. > - … whatever gets capitalized together in the beginning of a word. and the fourth is pretty dodgy, as it usually contradicts the others > - … whatever can never be split up by hyphenation. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
