From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: The letter Sharp S and the English language
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:23:03 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-03-25T08:23:03-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <792f8298-4502-40cf-acef-bda706555738@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514e1d12$0$6579$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
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.
-- Adam
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2013-03-23 21:22 The letter Sharp S and the English language Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-25 15:23 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
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
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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