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Of course they weren't ligatures in Classical Latin, they were just separate letters.
When did they become ligatures? I would suspect it was in mediævel monk days when the OE and AE, originally pronounced oy and eye, respectively, had slid together in pronunciation and there were a bunch of other shortenings, letters left out, either represented by horizontal lines over words or just completely elided.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted smallpox! of troy 11/03/03 07:21 PM Calling all Latin scholars! wofahulicodoc 11/04/03 12:51 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! wwh 11/04/03 01:10 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! shanks 11/04/03 05:26 PM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! wwh 11/04/03 06:05 PM ligatures here and there wofahulicodoc 11/04/03 09:57 PM Re: ligatures here and there Faldage 11/05/03 12:53 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! doc_comfort 11/13/03 05:05 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! wwh 11/13/03 01:35 PM
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