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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by my_first_acct on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:09AM (#16155987)
Desktop keyboards contain apostrophes, but smartphone keyboards generally don't. And one proposal (the best, IMHO) used digraphs rather than accented letters. This would work very nicely with computers, smart phones, Twitter, Google, etc.
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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by tlholaday on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:38AM (#16158446)
> ... digraphs ...

I wonder who to credit for encouraging the English to use th instead of thorn. It turned out ok.

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by gerdesj on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:29AM (#16158820)
True but we now have pretty much the world plus dog thinking that "Ye olde shoppe" sounds very different to "The old shop".

Note that I did not put in a real thorn and instead substituted a Y. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

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