> On 2 Dec 2018, at 20:29, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 02 2018 at 10:33 +0100, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote:
>>
>> It was common in the 1800s to singly and doubly underline superscript
>> abbreviations in handwriting according to [1-2], and [2] also mentions
>> the abbreviation discussed in this thread.
>
> Thank you very much for this reference to the very abbreviation! I
> looked up Wikipedia but I haven't read it carefully enough :-(
Quite of a coincidence, as I was looking at the article topic, and it happened to have this remark embedded!
>> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator
>> 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator#cite_note-1
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