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From: mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Alphabetical Order
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 07:26:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 07:26:01 1985
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In article <2435@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>How about equivalence?  A language might interfile "x" with "j", for
>instance.  The Dutch interfile "y" and the digraph "ij".
>
>(Or do they?  Can anybody think of a Dutch word in which "ij" is
>_not_ equivalent to "y"?)

I'm sure the Dutch will tell you.

Just to add that in Norwegian orthography "aa" is an alternative for
the a with a circle on top. They are identical for all purposes.

You might care to ponder languages where lower case letters have no
upper case equivalent and vice versa, into the bargain.
-- 
Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd.
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