6 Mar
2015
6 Mar
'15
1:11 p.m.
Speaking of which, I've never been to India (not counting 45 minutes in the Delhi airport). But a friend recently explained to my surprise that in Hindi there's a phoneme pronounced about halfway between V and W, as in the name Aggarwal. --Dan
On Mar 6, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Hans Havermann <gladhobo@teksavvy.com> wrote:
Bill Gosper: "Wasn't v created from u by lazy Roman stonecutters?"
:) According to Laurent Pflughaupt's "Letter by Letter" (English ed. 2007): "The first graphic differentiation of the two letters occurred in a Gothic alphabet dating from 1386."