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- Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!world!jcf
- From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
- Subject: Re: Capital "I"
- Message-ID: <C0064A.8K0@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <5596@daily-planet.concordia.ca> <BzxxKI.2ow@world.std.com> <glen.725557020@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:07:21 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund) writes:
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- >jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
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- >>...
- >>I don't know what you mean by "our times", but schoolchildren were
- >>doing this when I was in grade school, almost 50 years ago.
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- >I have never noticed this, growing up in the Midwest (US). Could it be
- >regional?
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- I went to grade school in Beverly Hills, CA.
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- I am pretty sure I have seen dotted capital I's in most places I have
- lived. There is one in the trademark of the Hills supermarket chain.
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