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Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0]. > It represents the same sound in the
by voytec 1y ago
Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0].
> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").
> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.
Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg
- zbyforgotp 1y agoI started school in 1980 and I don’t remember this. Also books don’t use this typeface no matter how old.
- voytec 1y agoAnd yet, you can see the "Straƶ Miejska" logotype linked in my comment above, with a crown on the eagle, so post-December 31, 1989[0]. It may depend on the region (I was raised in the eastern Poland) but I also remember that in the primary school we used a different symbol for the letter "s". But only in hand-writing while any printed "s" looked like it does currently. I'm unable to find the UTF-8 character resembling the hand-written version. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Poland# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Poland#