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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Muke Tever" <muke@...> wrote: > > Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@...> 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". In the Neo-Latin I was taught 'long' and 'short' are 'producta' and 'correpta', respectively. > > *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/ >