Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 12:55:05 EDT

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At 09:39 -0700 2003-07-15, Peter Kirk wrote:

>But then J was originally a glyph variant of I, and only quite
>recently in English have they been fully distinguished as letters.

It's not all that recent, and it wasn't English that made the innovation.

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