Re: Old and Middle English spelling and exotic letters

Richard Wordingham recently said:

> A bar through <b>, <d> or <p> is an abbreviation for vowel + r. I
> don't know how late it survived - I've seen <p> with a bar in a 17th
> century English document for the 'par' of 'parte'. There's a
> similar abbreviation for 'pro', distinct from the abbreviation
> for 'per' and 'par'. I've not noticed any Unicode encodings for
> these, unless for example we're to equate the English barred <d>
> with the Vietnamese barred <d>.

See MUFI for some private use area proposals for abbreviation characters. (A
web search for MUFI and SEI should find it.) You may also come across an e
with a long tail at the end of words. This is normally short for "es" in
English (also "is" in Latin).

Tim

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