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Thanks for the assist.

Joel Jacobs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor J. Kenchington" 
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Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 6:35 PM
Subject: Cyrillic alphabet, was: Soviet Sextants!


> Joel Jacobs wrote:
>
> > Everyone knows that in the Cyrillic alphabet
> > that S and T are the same?
>
>
> I think Joel has got a bit muddled there.
>
>
> The Cyrillic letter corresponding to the Roman T looks a lot like it.
> That is, a block-capital "T" means T whether in Roman or Cyrillic.
>
> In contrast, the Roman S is equivalent to a Cyrillic letter that looks a
> lot like the Roman C. There is similar confusion between other pairs of
> letters: "P" for R, "H" for N for example.  (Hence, the sports teams for
> the former USSR wore uniforms bearing lettering that looked like "CCCP"
> but should have been read as SSSR -- the Russian word for "Union"
> beginning with an S.) Yet other Cyrillic letters do not look like
> anything in the Roman alphabet and so cannot be reproduced here.
>
> In the case of sextants, a model that appears (in Cyrillic) to be an
> "SNO-T" should be called an SNO-T.
>
>
> Trevor Kenchington
>
>
>
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