Talk:Stigma (letter)

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Contents 1 Pronunciation 2 Photograph 3 Title of article 4 Template

[edit] Pronunciation

How is stigma pronounced?

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probably... Wikisquared 10:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photograph

The first letter of the word in the photo looks like an elision of sigma and tau. It looks nothing like the "stigma" character discussed in the main article: such an elision could have been done by someone who'd never seen a stigma. Is this really a good example? Dark Formal 21:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

The legend for the photograph should make explicity which Byzantine period the writing sample is from. It may be confusing to those who just know that Byzantine means complex and old, and then to read that "stigma" (did the Greeks themselves call it that? does it have anything to do with the english word?) did not exist until Medieval times (which people associate with ideas of unfairness and crude thought, not oldness per se).

[edit] Title of article

Why is this article called "Stigma (letter)", when Stigma is not in fact a "letter" according to ordinary definitions of the word (but rather is a ligature)? The name used on the Unicode character list doesn't really count for much by itself... AnonMoos (talk) 15:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, the article title is confusing. PeterMottola (talk) 04:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

The article calls it a ligature, and the manuscript example looks like a ligature, but in the article the character itself looks nothing like a ligature of sigma and tau, at least on my browser. It just looks like a word-final sigma. Is it rendered correctly? Dark Formal (talk) 15:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Why is this not listed in the template? —DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 06:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC))