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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, Dale, I'm not with you. What I mean is that, for example, British books will still almost always use the spelling "encylopædia", with a ligature, rather than use separate letters and spell the word "encyclopaedia". Is there a difference between ligatures such as "æ" and "" and the ones we've been discussing previously?
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Yes, those are all alphabetic ligatures. These are not what I am talking about. What I am talking about is the examples already used in this thread. You are the first to bring up alphabetic ligatures which are designed as pronunciation ligatures (function as alphabetic letters) in that they modify the phoneme itself. Check ligatures our wiki article on
typography or typographic ligature in the wikipedia.
Stylistic ligatures include such things as: fi, fj fl (fl), ff (ff), ffi (ffi), and ffl (ffl). Hope this is clearer.
Dale