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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:25:10 -0500
From: Tim Coleman <tcoleman@golden.net>
To: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: "real" letters [Was: 10.31 second kernel compile]
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:38:13AM +0000, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:30:32AM +0200, Itai Nahshon wrote:
> > 
> > > There are still a couple of places you can legitimaely use an ae symbol in
> > > English. It's not quite dead yet 8)
> > 
> > The only example that I've seen in English texts is use of ? as in "na?ve".
> > 
> 
> The two I can recall off the top of my head are "d?mon" and "f?rie".

And, of course, encyclop?dia.  Or p?diatrician.  Perhaps L?nux?

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Tim Coleman <tim@timcoleman.com>                       [43.28 N 80.31 W]
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