top | item 43862187 (no title) zbyforgotp | 10 months ago There was no typeface change for “ż” - the other typeface is sometimes used now as it was 30 years ago. See the foto at Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BB discuss order hn newest voytec|10 months ago Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0].> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg zbyforgotp|10 months ago I started school in 1980 and I don’t remember this. Also books don’t use this typeface no matter how old. load replies (1)
voytec|10 months ago Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0].> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg zbyforgotp|10 months ago I started school in 1980 and I don’t remember this. Also books don’t use this typeface no matter how old. load replies (1)
zbyforgotp|10 months ago I started school in 1980 and I don’t remember this. Also books don’t use this typeface no matter how old. load replies (1)
voytec|10 months ago
> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").
> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.
Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg
zbyforgotp|10 months ago