Update to the second question summary (was: A sign/abbreviation for "magister")

Hans Åberg via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sun Dec 2 15:52:35 CST 2018


> On 2 Dec 2018, at 20:29, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 02 2018 at 10:33 +0100, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote:
>> 
>> It was common in the 1800s to singly and doubly underline superscript
>> abbreviations in handwriting according to [1-2], and [2] also mentions
>> the abbreviation discussed in this thread.
> 
> Thank you very much for this reference to the very abbreviation! I
> looked up Wikipedia but I haven't read it carefully enough :-(

Quite of a coincidence, as I was looking at the article topic, and it happened to have this remark embedded!

>> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator
>> 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator#cite_note-1





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