Re: pronunciation

> Joe Seals wrote: In biological Latin, the digraphs ae and oe are
> treated as the letter e. (Does anyone remember when typesetters set
> these digraphs as ONE letter, joined?)
>
> But do note that nowadays, digraphs such as ae and oe are often
> written simply as e: anemia, fetus, ameba, estrogen.

Joe

In American English only, I think. Other English speakers such as Brits
and Kiwis are more conservative, though the joined digraph (which I at least remember) does appear to be entirely extinct.

Moira


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