John Hudson scripsit: > This ligature is one of the few that survived the extended period of > ligature-rich cursive Greek typography that began in the late 15th century > and withered in the mid-18th century.
And (uniquely for a Greek ligature?) was copied into the Latin alphabet, and is now in use for /w/ in certain French-derived orthographies. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today. --_Specht v. Netscape_