From: Philipp Reichmuth (mailinglistenprozessor@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 12:11:27 EST
Hello Doug,
DE> Actually, the Sütterlin umlaut-mark is a small italicized "e,"
DE> which is very similar to an "n." What it really ends up looking
DE> like, from a distance, is a double acute. [...] Sütterlin does use
DE> a macron over "m" and "n" to indicate that the letter should be
DE> doubled,
Actually, when I learned it in school about seventeen years ago, I was
taught to use double acutes as umlaut markers, and there were no
macrons to indicate doubled letters. Double "m" was not very legible,
however.
Cheers -
Philipp Reichmuth mailto:mailinglistenprozessor@gmx.net
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