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What's with the funny connected "st" in the article? I've never seen that before.

• Etherlord87 4y ago
  I don't see it, perhaps a different font loaded for me, but maybe you mean a ligature? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)
  • danans 4y ago
    Yes, that's it. I've not seen a ligature used that way in text before. English has words that can be spelled with ligatures to this day, but not for the sound "st" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_that_may_be_spelled_with_a_ligature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_that_may...
    • dragonwriter 4y ago
      Its just a fancy typographic ligature, not a spelling “ligature” (which, in turn, is more of a letter with an optional decomposition as an anti-ligature) like ash (æ) or ethel (œ).