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Re:The Afsluitdijk by bitwize on Saturday December 21, 2019 @02:47PM (#21852991)
When a Dutchman writes "ij", it looks like "ÿ".
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Re:The Afsluitdijk by tripzilch on Sunday December 22, 2019 @11:29AM (#21858042)
Yeah especially when writing cursive. It's because it's technically one character or something. It's even got its own unicode: ij

Not sure if it really counts as a ligature, though.

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Re:The Afsluitdijk by 52-6F-62 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:50AM (#21877291)
Makes sense. It’s a common phoneme :P
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