Re: Ligatures in Portuguese, French (was: ... Turkish and Azeri)

From: James H. Cloos Jr. (cloos@jhcloos.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 12:51:42 EDT

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    >>>>> "John" == John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> writes:

    John> Not just mediaeval text; "&c." for "etc." (= "et cetera") was
    John> common right through the 19th century if not later.

    And picked up steam again online in the 1980s; groups.google.com
    should have lots of examples of "&c".

    -JimC

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