Oddness about my e-mail address (was Re: Oddness about money)
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aelflaed@... is me. I have two accounts into this group, because my longtime e-mail was moved into my gmail account, but now it's secondary.
My g-mail mailing address is my default one (long story) and so PLEASE anyone who might be expecting e-mail from me, put it in your address book with my real name so you'll know the mail is from me! Thanks.
To my friends from The Society for Creative Anachronism, it will look just like me, and most can even spell it, but I know to most unschoolers it will look like gibberish.
It's a medieval English name I used for years, in the club. It's a cousin of some names that are still around: Alfred, Elsie.... I'm not thinking of another one right now, but there are a few. ¡¡ They used that weird curly combo of a and e that older writings still half-use for aesthetic and archaeology and suchlike. Alfred had two of those, long ago. AElsie only had one, I'm pretty sure. It's called an ash.
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One site says "The letter ??¡®²¹²õ³ó¡¯?is an amalgamated letter roughly representing a sound between ¡®a¡¯ and ¡®e¡¯. Two letters were borrowed from the runic alphabet: ??'thorn', and ??'wynn', and one was adapted from the Latin alphabet ??¡®±ð³Ù³ó¡¯. Eth and thorn both represent the th sound, and wynn represents w. Because wynn has exactly the same sound as our modern w, a lot of editors just use w to represent wynn, and we are building in a facility to enable you to replace the wynn with a w in the edited texts."
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If AElflaed had stuck around as a name, it would probably be spelled "Elfled" now, but it didn't, so it isn't.?
Maybe it would be "Alfled" as "Alfred" went, but who knows.??
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What's important is, please save this, especially if I owe you a thank-you note.
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Sandra Dodd