Hi Richmond
Richmond via use-livecode<https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=use-livecode@lists.runrev.com&q=from:%22Richmond+via+use%5C-livecode%22> Sat, 10 Nov 2018 11:42:50 -0800<https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=use-livecode@lists.runrev.com&q=date:20181110> >I don't know who told you that ð was an Icelandic d. No one told me, I just made it up from the appearance of the letter. I do know though that Sunnudagu (Sunday) is different from Barðar (a male first name) >The ð is called the "eth", and was used in Anglo-Saxon interchangeably with >thethorn to represent the 2 sounds that are now represented in English by <the >digraph <th. >As such Icelandic has retained the eth sign. >In Icelandic the /d/ sound is represented by the letter d. thank you for this very interesting information. But I think that the actual topic of this thread could also interest the author of the famous "DevaWriter", may be only on a tangent. Kind regards Bernd _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
