Re: Encounters with Katakana "YE"?
From: Bart Mathias (bartmathias_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/01/04
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:04:21 GMT
Charles J. Lippert wrote:
> [...]
> Recently, I came across a strange Katakana that I've never seen before.
> However, from the context and shape, I recognized that the Katakana was YE.
> Now, generally when I write YE, I write it as $B%$%'(B (Ie) and I have seen $B%q(B
> (WE) used as
> YE. This strange Katakana I came across can be described as either $B%((B (E)
> with
> the top-bar swashed like $B%$(B (I) or as an underlined $B%$(B (I). Have anyone
> else come
> across this version of YE? Was this part of a Meiji-era Katakana reform
> that never took hold?
It wouldn't likely have been any Meiji-era reconstruction of that lost
sound that was probably never spelled in katakana.
In recent years, the grass form of $B9>(B has sometimes been used as a
hiragana symbol for "ye." It's entirely possible that someone came up
with a katakana device as well.
Where did you see it? What was it about its shape, and its context,
that told you it would be "ye"?
Bart
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