0xd7 in species name ?

[Thomas Lammers]

At 08:56 PM 11/12/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Of course, J, U, and W are "non-Latin" characters, assimilated to Latin
>from other European languages,

That's not strictly true, is it?  The first two were alternative forms of I
and V, used in some circumstances (e.g., carving in stone or at the
beginning of a word) or not distinguished at all.  They were later
distinguished in order to denote *sounds* assimilated from other
languages.  W was basically created for a similar purpose, IIRC.



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