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| | orion: Why C for Tsade (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | "X" starts with a palatal and so lent itself to use for Heth, and "C" as the remaining sibilant was used for Tsade. |
 | | As Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and transliteration fonts proliferate, it is now easy to represent Tsade as an "S" with an underdot in print. |
 | | However, in e-mail, most of us are still stuck with the old lower-ASCII character set, in which one still cannot type "s-underdot" as one character -- and so the old workarounds persist. |
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