Talk:Caesar

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I decided to make this the disambig page because empirically almost none of the WP references intend to refer to Julius - most seem to be to Caesar (title) actually. So might as well come to the disambigger first, rather than confuse readers by connecting Julius with history of Christian Bulgaria, etc. Stan 15:35, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be moved to Cæsar? 'C' doesn't make an 's' sound before 'a' except in French loanwords.Cameron Nedland 15:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

You have a point, but "æ" is no longer used in English as a character except as an archaic ligature. Wolfdog 20:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] æ

This seriously should be moved to Cæsar. Caesar is technically incorrect. Tavix (talk) 03:28, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

• It's a common misconception, but æ isn't actually a letter in the Latin alphabet. That's why on the Latin wikipedia, the article is at la:Caesar, not la:Cæsar. --M@rēino 13:39, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

æ is a ligature, it is different than a letter but was used at the time. Tavix (talk) 21:37, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

• Yes, as I said, æ is not a letter. It is no longer acceptable to use ligatures in modern written english; to do so would be anachronistic. --M@rēino 14:53, 4 April 2008 (UTC)