Re: IPA Greek

On 2013-09-12, Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com> wrote:
> Further clarification on this point was published in http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4296.pdf

Thanks, that rather more than answers everything...

>> Somehow I hadn't noticed that ʋ was there - and also bizarrely named, since as PSG observes, it looks much more like upsilon than ʊ does. Why it was called V WITH HOOK rather than SCRIPT V? Was it for Africanist reasons?
>
> 028A is ʊ LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON
> 028B is ʋ LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH HOOK
>
> These are used for different sounds. I'm not sure that either name is particularly bizarre.

I know what they *mean*.
The name "V WITH HOOK" is strange because there is no hook in ʋ, in
any of the several other senses that HOOK is used in IPA character
names, or in any reasonable typographic sense. ʋ is usually drawn as
an upright italic v, possibly with the italic instroke at the left
replaced by a roman serif, but leaving the usual italic bulb
termination on the right. Which bit does the HOOK refer to?
Elsewhere, HOOK refers to, well, a hook stuck on to a bit of a letter,
be it the implosive hook, retroflex hook, palatal hook or rhotic hook.

The other is strange because whatever the origin of the character, it
looks like a turned small capital omega.

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