The use of a

[Harding Nick MMUk]

We do actually have the ae in the English language, although it
is usually written ae.
A few examples still exist, one I use frequently as a chemist is
Haemoglobin (although the
American chemists are pushing for Hemoglobin).
Also in English history it is frequently used in royal names
such as AEthelred the Unready
and AEthelwold. We inherited it from the Saxons when they
invaded in the 5th and 6th
Century. Even as early as the 10th century King Alfred writing
about "english" noted that it
was starting to be used less frequently.

Just my 2GB


>try holding down on the ALT key, and pressing "146" on your
number >pad, way
>over on the far right of your key board... "145" will give you
the
>lower-case version AE ae

>What on earth is it called, though? Thats probly why we dont
have it in
>OUR alphabet...one of those letters nobody knew the name to LOL
>"Spell 'AEsir' "...

[Rasmus Juul Wagner]

Harding Nick MMUk wrote:
>
> We do actually have the ae in the English language, although it
> is usually written ae.
> A few examples still exist, one I use frequently as a chemist is
> Haemoglobin (although the
> American chemists are pushing for Hemoglobin).
> Also in English history it is frequently used in royal names
> such as AEthelred the Unready
> and AEthelwold. We inherited it from the Saxons when they
> invaded in the 5th and 6th
> Century. Even as early as the 10th century King Alfred writing
> about "english" noted that it
> was starting to be used less frequently.
>
> Just my 2GB
>
> >try holding down on the ALT key, and pressing "146" on your
> number >pad, way
> >over on the far right of your key board... "145" will give you
> the
> >lower-case version AE ae
>
> >What on earth is it called, though? Thats probly why we dont
> have it in
> >OUR alphabet...one of those letters nobody knew the name to LOL
> >"Spell 'AEsir' "...

Well, the name and the sound of the letter in dansih is the same...it
sounds like the E in "hey!".

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