RE: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 08:53:29 EDT


John Cowan wrote:
> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
>
> > If this is the case, decomposing the mark into the Arabic
> letters it derives
> > from would be as nonsensical as decomposing the question
> mark into the Latin
> > letters it derives from ("Qo" for "quaestio").
>
> I grant your "Q" but I doubt your "o". In all fonts known to me, the
> dot under ? and ! is plainly a period, as indeed one would expect at
> the end of a sentence.

That's what I thought too until this morning, but most resources I have
checked say it comes from the first and last letter of "Quaestio".

_ Marco



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