Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Wed Jul 19 10:19:39 EDT 2017
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>:
> On 2017-07-19, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> vacuum, continuum, squush, fortuuned
>>
>> Fortuuned? Where did you find that?
>
> It was in the scowl-7.1 wordlist I had laying around:
>
> http://wordlist.aspell.net/
>
> However, the scowl website now claims not to know about it:
>
> http://app.aspell.net/lookup?dict=en_US;words=fortuuned
Finnish is well-endowed in that respect:
suu
puu
kuu
huuli
tuuli
uusi
uuni
kaipuu
...
In a great irony of fate, though, Finnish completely lacks the "w"!
Marko
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