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Thread #9275   Message #60405
Posted By: Philippa
26-Feb-99 - 10:29 AM
Thread Name: The ' fada ' in Irish vowels
Subject: RE: The ' fada ' in Irish vowels
Now I'm wondering what one would have to do to publish Russian/Ukranian cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Chinese etc. script on the Web. I ask out of curiosity, rather than to complicate life for Dick and Susan. Yet, if I could read any of these languages I would want to see the proper script alongside the transliteration (which is bound to be inadequate!)
Just to be pedantic, if I were searching for [it's glory]in the previous message, I would miss out, having typed [its glory]. Although 's is the norm with possessives, the rule is that only the contraction of 'it is' becomes it's to distinguish it from the possessive singular its and possessive plural its'. A rule very often observed in the breach!