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DBerman #192845 08/27/10 01:02 AM
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Yes, welcome aboard. Maybe you know what the vowels ẏ, y, ŷ and ŵ sound like in Welsh. "w" apparently has an "oo" sound.


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beck123 #192863 08/27/10 09:35 PM
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Fẏr thŷm thŷt reallư ŵant to knoŵ.

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DBerman #192867 08/27/10 11:40 PM
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Yeah, what Shea said.


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we stole boor from Dutch Ssh! They might want it back.

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Tough. It was their bad luck to meet up with us in a dark alley. They have to live with the consequences.

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we stole boor from Dutch

Not necessarily. The origin of English boor is not so cut and dried. It might have come down via Middle and Old English from Proto-Germanic. Old English had gebūr 'dweller; farmer' and neāhbūr 'neighbor'.


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Clark-Hall has ±būr, freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer, where the ± signifies that it is found with and without the prefix ge-.

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Originally Posted By: Faldage
where the ± signifies that it is found with and without the prefix ge-.

What is the ASCII code to get that plus and minus sign?

Avy #192961 09/06/10 02:12 AM
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one way to get it (and many other special characters) is to copy/paste it from the (Windows) Character Map: ±

Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map

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Thanks.

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