At 11:41 AM 1/29/02, Otto Stolz wrote:
>- Do "shamrock", "trefoil", and "clover" denote the same
> family of plants?
The same genus.
>- Is it really true that a native Englsh speaker does not
> link the form the clubs (card suit) symbol with a trefoil?
I know people who are so unfamiliar with plants that they would never make
the connection. I also remember as a child hearing other children calling
the club suit "clovers".
>- Is there a difference between the clubs (card suit) symbol
> and the (Irish) shamrock symbol, in terms of character
> classes -- or, otherwise, could these be treated as glyph
> variants?
Michael's point about the leaflet tips is a good one, so that a single
glyph could not be used both for playing cards and for shamrocks.
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
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