Ligatures should work fine in Wordie, either the html character entity that colleen used or the unicode glyph. But I think we decided against them: search "ligature" on uselessness' "guidelines" thread: http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=2847. Personally I think they're great in comments, but, in my opinion, best avoided when listing words. They're aesthetic (æsthetic?) and optional, and therefore not part of a word's actual spelling.
There's a practical consequence too. The database sees "mediaeval" and "mediæval" as two different words. It's not a big deal to have multiple forms listed, but I think it takes away some of the fun when comments on what is really the same word get spread across variants.
That is most definitely true.
There's nothing indefinite about me. ;-)
Still sticking with that "the," are you, uselessness? ;->
Because what the uselessness says, goes.
Good points. And I don't even think to use them anyway, so I guess I'm safe! ;-)
Ligatures should work fine in Wordie, either the html character entity that colleen used or the unicode glyph. But I think we decided against them: search "ligature" on uselessness' "guidelines" thread: http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=2847. Personally I think they're great in comments, but, in my opinion, best avoided when listing words. They're aesthetic (æsthetic?) and optional, and therefore not part of a word's actual spelling.
There's a practical consequence too. The database sees "mediaeval" and "mediæval" as two different words. It's not a big deal to have multiple forms listed, but I think it takes away some of the fun when comments on what is really the same word get spread across variants.
yeah, it works as html, but I did not try putting it in as a word, not being sure the special character would translate.
Looks as though it worked in your comment though, colleen.
in its most correct form, it would be mediæval, with a ligature, but I seemed to recall something about those not working well in Wordie?
I've never seen it spelled this way, but google has 2.5 million hits, about a tenth of medieval, so I guess it is somewhat common.