Re: Ligatures in Portuguese, French (was: ... Turkish and Azeri)

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 01:16:24 EDT

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    Jim Allan scripsit:

    > What this doesn't indicate is that sometimes in medieval text the
    > ampersand ligature is used to spell _et_ as part of a longer word.

    Not just mediaeval text; "&c." for "etc." (= "et cetera") was common
    right through the 19th century if not later. 

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