Talk:Turned e

The Nigerian Ǝ's Orientation

In the article it is said that "a similar letter with identical minuscule ǝ is used in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet, but has the capital form majuscule Ǝ, based on a horizontally flipped majuscule E." Is there any good source that can be cited in order to back up the statement that the letter is based on a horizontally flipped E as opposed to an E that's been rotated just like the little e is? Since any object having a horizontal axis of symmetry will look the same when it is flipped horizontally as it does when rotated 180 degrees around its center, and since the lower-case e is rotated 180 degrees around its center, why should the upper-case Pan-Nigerian letter be described as having a different transformation applied to it than the lower-case? -- SidShakal 08:31, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Because it is. A rotated majuscule E would look different; the middle bar would be lower than center and the top bar would be longer than the bottom bar, which would be ugly. Then again, a well-designed serif font wouldn't just use a horizontally flipped majuscule E either, since the serifs would have to be adjusted (many fonts have asymmetric serifs on e.g. the upper case letter T), but "flipped" still describes it better than "rotated". :-) - ∅ (∅), 22:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah! Good point. I read using a sans serif font which places the middle line directly in the center and the top and bottom lines the same length. -- SidShakal (talk) 05:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree that this should be changed to rotated rather than flipped. The argument that technically were an E character flipped, its middle bar would have slightly differently placement, is irrelevant. The statement is regarding the character's origin. It is based on a rotated E, though it well may now more accurately match a flipped E. Were its origin based on a flipped E character, would not its lowercase look flipped (not rotated, as it does) as well? —Startswithj (talk) 05:31, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Sound

Which sound(s) does this letter represent? -- MacCambridge (talk) 10:21, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Turned E: duplicate article?

This article's first sentence identifies it as "or, Turned E". There's a separate article for Turned E.

These articles should be merged or better differentiated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.15.175.69 (talk) 19:49, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

It appears these articles have since been merged, as that is now a redirect here. -- Beland (talk) 02:42, 2 December 2025 (UTC)