From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2010 - 12:06:42 CST
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, I noticed the other day that the OED uses an horizontal E
> facing upwards, represented by the entity #horizE# (see
> <http://dictionary.oed.com/help/advanced/symbols.html>). However, it
> transpires that the only usage of this entity in the dictionary is in
> the entry for the word "letter" where it is used to represent the
> Chinese character 山 in a quote from Joyce !
They could have used Cyrillic Ш for that. And, also, in early XIX
century Russian print the capital Т looked like an upside-down Ш, so a
font-specific Т may be enough to represent the last of "Illiterate Es"
Leo
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