From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: The letter Sharp S and the English language
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:55:02 +0100
Date: 2013-03-25T22:55:03+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5150c7b7$0$6547$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <792f8298-4502-40cf-acef-bda706555738@googlegroups.com>
On 25.03.13 16:23, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Saturday, March 23, 2013 2:22:26 PM UTC-7, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> In case you remember a heated discussions of what ß is,
>> whether it is an S-Z ligature or an S-S, and how to (not)
>> downcase "ACCESS", more evidence comes from Ireland of 1759,
>> in the signature of Arthur Guinneß,
>>
>> http://home.arcor.de/bauhaus/Ada/GUINNESS.jpg
>
> That pretty clearly looks like two separate letters to me, although the two s's are in different styles. But it isn't a ligature. I'm not sure what your point is since I don't remember the original thread very well.
I forgot to mention the issue with 'ß' and Ada. Ada-auth.org produces
AI-05-0227 which mentions acceß and the 'Image of enumeration literal
Diyarbakır. Seeing that reminds me that I should search at least two
memories before posting (mine and the net's 8-°).
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 21:22 The letter Sharp S and the English language Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-25 15:23 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-03-25 19:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-25 23:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-31 19:47 ` Paul Sture
2013-03-25 21:55 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2013-03-25 16:15 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-03-25 19:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-25 20:12 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-03-25 22:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-03-25 23:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-26 13:13 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
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