Re: VMs: Strange pair statistics

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In message <1074237980.4007921c6086b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx writes
>
>A few possibilities which come the mind of the naive reader:
>
>
>*
>*) German for example used to have two different ways/characters to
represent
>the letter "s". Perhaps this is the case here. (I don't know if any other
>languages have similar features.)


Of course Arabic does the same thing. The letter S takes on two different
forms, one usual one, and a special shape for an S at the end of a word.
This is true of many Arabic letters. Some have different initial, middle and
end shaped.

Cheers

Dan


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