[Bryn-gwlad] alphabets

[Stefan li Rous]

Not to mention the creation of additional letters in the Latin  
alphabet during our time period, such as "W" ie: double U and another  
one or two I can't think of right now. Or the 'S' s that look like  
'f's. And the dropping of others such as the single character from  
Anglo-Saxon now often shown as AE in English.

I've yet to spend the time I've wanted to studying alphabet changes  
through the years. I've got a book or two on it if anyone is  
interested in references.

There are also these Florilegium files in the SCRIBAL-ARTS section:
alphabets-msg     (36K)  4/26/99    Alphabets and how they've changed.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCRIBAL-ARTS/alphabets-msg.html
scrpt-develop-art (57K)  6/20/00    "Societal Influences on Script  
Development"
                                        by Mistress Aquilanne Grace.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCRIBAL-ARTS/scrpt-develop-art.html

And this one in the NICOLAA'S ARTICLES section: (yes, someday I'll  
get around to moving it to the above section)
Paleo-Scribes-art (25K)  9/ 5/97    "An Introduction to Palaeography for
                                        Scribes"
http://www.florilegium.org/files/NICOLAA/Paleo-Scribes-art.html

Stefan

On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:19 AM, tmcd at panix.com wrote:

> Leaving aside my other reply:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace  
> <sirlyonel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Creative spelling and phonetic spelling are appropriately Medieval
>> modes of writing. Spelling only began to become orthodox in Europe
>> after the advent of the printing press. Even then, it took a couple
>> of centuries before it really caught on.
>
> I'd like to tangent off of that.
>
> There were known spelling variations and unknown spelling variations.
> For example, in Middle English, I'm pretty sure that i<->y were used
> pretty interchangeably.  But that was probably not the case in all
> languages.  And you wouldn't expect to see m<->d, for example.
>
> I don't know anywhere near enough on the subject to talk about
> plausible period variations.  It sometimes comes up in commentary on
> heraldic submissions, when someone wants Theire Uwn Yunique Spellynge,
> and we have to look at the documented spellings and see if we can
> interpolate or extrapolate (often along the lines of "well, if we take
> the initial 'Gl' from the 1347 citation, the interior 'y' from the
> 1403 Curia Regis roll, and the trailing 'e' from the 1302 listing
> ...")
>
> Dinky de Linoleum
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com

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