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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". *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/