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Author: Karl Hagen
Date: 2008-03-04 16:40:58
Subject: Re: Error report: Bosworth/Toller, page b1297, entry 15
This is a margin comment on: Bosworth/Toller, page b1297, entry 15
> The "ILLEGIBLE" is an Anglo-Saxon ampersand, like a 7
More precisely, it's a tironian sign (Unicode 0x204A). This character deserves its own entity (I suggest &tironiansign;), since it should not be treated as an &. I've run across it in several other entries in B-T.
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
 Error report: Bosworth/Toller, page b1297, entry 15 |
Marion Ingham | 2008-03-01 13:04:56 | |
| Re: Error report: Bosworth/Toller, page b1297, entry 15 |
Karl Hagen | 2008-03-04 16:40:58 |