Re: German Letter in the English Language!?

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <mekgk1t7vrci0f57af0pj9c9ud97cr2ft1@xxxxxxx>,
> Giles Todd <news.050807@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> In Dutch handwriting, 'ij' often closely resembles 'y' with a
>> diaeresis simply because that is an easy way to write it in cursive
>> script, but it is rarely, if ever, so in print (I have seen
>> non-dotted 'y' in archaic formations of Dutch words, such as names
>> of places and people, but that is now a non-standard substitution
>> for 'ij').
>
> I remember some years ago noting with interest in a Dutch or Flemish
> telephone directory that ij and y were considered identical in the
> alphabetical ordering of names. So you had "Van Dijck" and "Van Dyck"
> all mixed in together.

Outrageous! Anyone would think they were the same...
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John Briggs


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