[Ads-l] Happy Þornsday!

[Jonathan Lighter]

According to no less a source than an old Ripley's Believe It or Not
cartoon, "&" was formerly the "twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet."
(Makes sense when you consider the old form "&c.").

JL

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:31 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't understand. What about Ƿ & Ᵹ, and "quantity"?
>
> MAM
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:18 AM Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark! Thanks for celebrating.
> >
> > It is still there. I don’t know how you got the “wynnyogh" transformed
> > into “quantity” though.
> >
> > http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html
> >
> > Michael Everson
> >
> > > On 9 Jun 2020, at 12:56, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Þornsday, 1994-06-09, CEN/TC304 resolved that in a default
> > multilingual European sort, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter
> after
> > Z. Subsequently, ISO/TC37/SC2/WG3 resolved that in its work on
> alphabetical
> > ordering, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter after Z. Most
> recently,
> > JTC1/SC22/WG20 resolved that in its work of producing a default
> > multilingual sort for ISO/IEC 10646, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate
> > letter after Z.
> > >
> > >
> > > Copied years ago from
> > >
> > > http://www.evertype.com/standards/quantity/thorn.html
> > > <http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html>
> > >
> > > which is now *404 Not found*.
> > >
> > > Mark Mandel
> >
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