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I think the wording might be backwards. The string "ae and oe" contains 7 graphemes, not 5, whereas "œ and æ" contains 5. It also seems to contradict [[MOS:CONFORM]] which says "Normalize archaic glyphs and ligatures in English ... æ→ae, œ→oe". [[Special:Contributions/216.58.25.209|216.58.25.209]] ([[User talk:216.58.25.209|talk]]) 02:17, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
:A grapheme is a basic functional unit of writing. There is actually some disagreement among scholars of grapholinguistics over where to draw the line, but suffice it to say I understand the plurality position is represented here. That is to say, the [[glyph]]s {{gph|æ}} and {{gph|ae}} can both represent the grapheme {{gpm|æ}} in situations where distinct from the digraph {{gpm|a}} followed by {{gpm|e}}. As it's not "its own letter" in English, this usually isn't the case. <span style="border-radius:2px;padding:3px;background:#1E816F">[[User:Remsense|<span style="color:#fff">'''Remsense'''</span>]]<span style="color:#fff"> ‥ </span>[[User talk:Remsense|<span lang="zh" style="color:#fff">'''论'''</span>]]</span> 02:24, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
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