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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: y with two dots
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 10:37:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 10:37:41 1986
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> >  Y-umlaut and y-umlaut (French, also used for the ij ligature in Dutch)
> 
> Since when has French used umlaute?

Of course you can't umlaut a French y.  But the French do use diereses
as we do, to divorce diphthongs.

Rewrite vi?  I guess I shall have to rewrite "roff," too.  Bother.


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