From: Michael Maxwell (mmaxwell@casl.umd.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 10:10:01 CDT
Mike (not me, an imposter using my name :-)) wrote:
> I used to be fluent in written Spanish, but despite that, I
> never considered ch, ll, or rr to be single characters. I
> think I did a Spanish crossword once where ch went into a
> single square.
Ch/ch (and Ll/ll, but not AFAIK rr, which never appears word-initial in Spanish) was considered to be a single letter until it was voted out in 1994. There's a good summary of that (as well as the history of 'ch' diagraphs in some other languages) at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_(digraph)
Mike Maxwell
CASL/ U Md
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