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The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet , two were modified Latin letters ( Æ , Ð ), and two developed from the runic alphabet ( Ƿ , Þ ).
In a tale from Bede's Ecclesiastical History (written in Latin), a man named Imma cannot be bound by his captors and is asked if he is using "litteras solutorias" (loosening letters) to break his binds. In one Old English translation of the passage, Imma is asked if he is using "drycraft" (magic, druidcraft) or "runestaves" to break his binds. [15]
Samples of Monospaced typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Anonymous Pro [1]Bitstream Vera Sans Mono [2]Cascadia Code: Century Schoolbook Monospace
A modified version of the letter wynn called vend was used briefly in Old Norse for the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/. The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet 's P , [ 4 ] or Q , [ citation needed ] or from the Rhaetic's alphabet 's W . [ 5 ]
The Unicode letter pair latin capital/small letter r rotunda rendered by different fonts. The r rotunda (ꝛ), "rounded r", is an old letter variant commonly used in rotunda scripts and other blackletter typefaces. It is thought that this variant form of that letter was originally devised either to save space while writing on expensive ...
English: An example blackletter typeface called "Old English". Español: El alfabeto en "Letra Gótica". ... Added missing letters e and f: 17:41, 3 December 2006:
Unlike other letter variants such as "long s" which originally were orthographically distinctive, r rotunda has always been a calligraphic variant, used when the letter r followed a letter with a rounded stroke towards the right side, such as o , b , p , h (and d in typefaces where this letter has no vertical stroke; as in ẟ , ꝺ and ð ).
Some other combinations of letters look similar, for instance rn looks similar to m, cl looks similar to d, and vv looks similar to w. In certain narrow-spaced fonts (such as Tahoma), placing the letter c next to a letter such as j, l or i will create a homoglyph, such as cj cl ci (g d a).