--- Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:03:25 -0400, Andrew Dunbar
> <hippietrail@...>
> wrote:
>
> > No! Perhaps there are two different DE ligatures?
> > The one I have been seeing is capital letters only
> > and looks like a capital D with the middle
> > horizontal bar of the E inside. If I had a digital
> > camera I'd take a photo to upload when I see the
> > next one...
>
> Probably almost nobody who writes this novelty has
> seen a [Ð].

Rather than a novelty, I belive it is an archaism.
It is different from both the letters capital eth (Ð)
and "D with stroke" (Đ), in that the stroke does
not
normally cross the vertical, but is rather more like
the stroke in a capital E.

Andrew Dunbar.

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