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JH: Juha Heikkila in article <JHEIKKIL.92Jul30133020@utrio.helsinki.fi>
CT: Claus Tondering in article <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk>

CT: ISO standard 6937 mentions that the Finnish language uses two characters
CT: that look like S and Z with a small v above (a hacek accent).
CT: I have never seen any Finnish text that uses these two characters.
CT: Does Finnish use them? Or has Finnish used them in the past?

JH: Yes, they are used, but very rarely. [stuff removed for brevity] You
JH: don't come across these characters that often because the sounds
JH: themselves only occur in relatively recent loans (ZH practically
JH: only in transliterations). More acclimatised loans tend to have S
JH: (/s/) instead.

The only Finnish word that I've ever come across that uses one of these
letters is s<ekki (s< being the s-hacek) meaning cheque (as in traveller's).


Matthew
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