ろ〇〇〇〇 ろ〇〇〇 <juuitchan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Some of those old hentaigana look just plain wrong. In fact, one
> HENTAIGANA LETTER KO looks like a pretty good HIRAGANA LETTER RA!
>
> No wonder nobody uses them anymore...
That's not surprising. To the untrained eye, U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER
LONG S looks just like LATIN SMALL LETTER F with a chip knocked off.
Some of the Cyrillic letters that were deprecated in the early 20th
Century looked quite similar to other, not necessarily related, letters.
BIG YUS, LITTLE YUS and PALOCHKA come to mind.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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