From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2007 - 17:20:19 CST
At 18:01 -0500 2007-12-26, David Starner wrote:
>On Dec 26, 2007 5:06 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>> I would vote for a casual error in data, but I cannot imagine any
>> particular reason why it would appear. In some other context, it might
>> be an attempt at adding a diacritic on "w" and producing a wrong one,
>> but Polish uses no diacritic on "w".
>
>But it does, however, use a "diacritic" with a l to produce a w sound.
>It could be a very confused transliteration--turning it into a w for
>the readers, and then adding something to indicate it's not really a
>w.
Pretty pointless to speculate when there is no image of the text to examine.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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