Etymology: "They" (short)

[Mark A Mandel]

I would like to ask everyone either to avoid using non-ASCII
characters in posts to this list or to annotate them in
ASCII. This discussion has acquired a lot of references to
"*e", where the asterisk represents something that I see as
a rectangle which indicates a code that my computer has no
representation for. I suppose that represents an edh, but it
might as easily be a thorn, or even a yogh in somebody's
font.

And please remember that there is no such thing as
"eight-bit ASCII", even if your program lists it as an
option: ASCII is a seven-bit code.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large