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From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Hashem Masoud <u_z_9@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Typo in performance-tips.html
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:38:17 -0700
Message-ID: <20050203063816.GA46977@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050203061510.GC46692@winnie.fuhr.org>
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	<20050203061510.GC46692@winnie.fuhr.org>

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:15:10PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
>
> Here's a brief article about how the "y" in "ye" is a misspelling
> of the "thorn" (þ) character:
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/68/15/6615.html

Here's another article mentioning that "y" was used in place of
thorn on printing presses that didn't have the latter character:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/10/Y0011000.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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