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– Sdl's – WeeklyNews Lite Edition, Year 2012 Vol. 19, Tue. May 22nd, 2012 08:02 |
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I love typography at large: do you know that accents appeared in 1740 in french?
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If you ever wondered when accents appeared in french... l'Académie française used the accents for the first time in 1740 with the 3rd edition of the dictionary:
L'Académie s'eſt donc vûe contrainte à faire dans cette nouvelle Edition, à ſon orthographe, pluſieurs changemens qu'elle n'avoit point jugé à propos d'adopter, lorſqu'elle donna l'Edition précédente.
Letters J and V were introduced a 22 years before in 1718 with the 2nd edition of the dictionary in order to clarify the pronunciation of words that were respectively composed with letters I and U.
Long s -- i.e. the glyph ſ -- disappeared from french in 1780 and was replaced by the s.
All this occurred only 250 years from now.
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