Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Matthias Julius wrote:
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> writes:
>   
> > The "ae" is a poorman form of "æ".
> >     
>
> In German it is perfectly legitimate to use "ae" instead of "ä" if you
> can not use that for what ever reason.  It is just ugly.  The
> character "æ" is used nowhere in German.
>
> Matthias
But it is in Icelandic, along with "þ" and "ð". Should the Icelanders 
change the spelling of their words to fit the ASCII only systems that 
"most" people use?

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