From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 11:32:11 CDT
On 2004.05.07, 02:41, D. Starner <shalesller@writeme.com> wrote:
>> I'd guess that typographically it is indeed a turned c-cedilla, a
>> hack for an open o with "something" above
>
> Perhaps it's inaccurate to call it an open-o: c and ç are ʃ
> and θ respectively, and ɔ and this new character are the
> medial/sonant-surd forms of this unturned versions.
Aaahhh, I got it 180° wrong! It's not the turned U+00E7 that is used
atypically here, but rather the U+0186...
> But turned-c is LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O, IMO.
Agreed. Just like U+0077 has quite different values in, say, Polish
and Welsh...
(P.S.: I could not find anything about Dorsey's spelling on the web.)
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