Re: [tied] Re: Mercury and lead

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:36:09 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:

>I love big textbook negatories. And the evidence? Actual instances of
>written <animalx>?

<animals> = <animax> or <animaux>. This is *French* we're talking
about, so of course thre's evidence aplenty. You might try
http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/

>Did scribes elsewhere in Europe use the letter x for -us-?

Ligature <ls> was written more or less the same in any blackletter
(Fraktur, Gothic) script. Only in French was it later reinterpreted
as "x".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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