Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 17:04:11 EDT

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At 12:50 -0700 2001-06-08, Wm Seán Glen wrote:
>I thought the medieval Irish Scribes borrowed it from the Hebrew.

I don't think there's much evidence to suggest that any of them knew Hebrew.

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Michael Everson

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