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Re: [romconlang] What gender are the names of letters?



Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@hidden.email> wrote:
> What gender are the names of letters in Romance languages?
> In Latin they are neuter, so I guess they are masculine in
> Romance, but you can never be sure, especially as the word
> LITTERA itself is feminine...

In Latin they are often feminine themselves, probably because of
'littera'.  e.g. the Latin name for the sign for long I is "I longa".

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