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When I was very young, I remember AE being used in various printed materials (school books). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by jmclnx 3y ago
When I was very young, I remember AE being used in various printed materials (school books).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
But by the time I was in High School it seemed to have disappeared.
- kzrdude 3y agoThe british spelling is supposedly encyclopædia and Britannica still seems to use it (with and without ae = æ ligature).
- bombcar 3y agoThe advent of the standard typewriter and computer keyboard killed many a special letter/ligature.
- opello 3y ago"AE" as you have it (with your link presumably you mean Æ) is the letter "ash" from the Old English alphabet. Þ called "thorn" is another, which type setters replaced with a Y so as to not add another letter to their collections. It made the "th" sound and why "Ye Olde ..." is a spelling convention but people of the time would never have said "yee" for it. Other letters were lost too, eth, wynn, and this is all contributes to why Modern English spelling conventions are kind of awful for ESL learners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
- version_five 3y agoWe still see this in French semi-regularly, such as œil and cœur
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoYou may have been taught using the briefly popular ITA system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet http://s320709369.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/footerImageLarge.png http://s320709369.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f...
- xattt 3y agoIf I didn’t have dyslexia before, I do now after seeing the awful attempts to make specific sounds stand out. > Any advantage of the I.T.A. in making it easier for children to learn to read English was often offset by … being generally confused by having to deal with two alphabets in their early years of reading.
- wizofaus 3y agoJapanese kids seem to manage learning 4 of them (5 if they're Korean-Japanese. And yes I'm including the Roman alphabet). Though it's true early- reading books tend to stick to just hiragana & katakana.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThey manage but that doesn't mean it's good for learning. But also, multiple symbols for a sound is a lot simpler than having two alphabets that work in completely different ways. And even worse is the two alphabets sharing symbols and giving them different interpretations.