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Response to The letter Æ 2008-02-10 17:17:30 Reply

I dont know what that is, but in my head, I'm reading it like ''A E''.

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Response to The letter Æ 2008-02-10 17:21:02 Reply

There are so many different opinions on this i think this topic hasn´t really cleared up anything.

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Response to The letter Æ 2008-02-10 17:22:59 Reply
At 2/10/08 05:11 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: In Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, he included a footnote in Northern Lights (/Golden Compass) that "dæmon" is to be pronounced as "demon".

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Response to The letter Æ 2008-02-10 20:48:23 Reply
At 2/10/08 05:21 PM, Life-Stream wrote: There are so many different opinions on this i think this topic hasn´t really cleared up anything.

True, nobody is agreeing on how to say Æ.
I nead your help people, there has to be sombody that has studied Old Anglish?

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Response to The letter Æ 2008-02-10 20:55:45 Reply

It's pronounced in the way you say Caesar. Originally it was spelled Cæsar, but that was phased out.

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