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Re: capitalization, drop vowels too?

w cld d wtht vwls t.

d w rlly nd cptlztn t tll wrds 'prt?

Hebrew and Arabic manage.

Ancient Greek and some other languages didn't write the 'h', later they put an apostrophe.

The dh, gh, bh, th mh etc in Irish used to just have a dot above the consonant. Since i could take í they never put the dot on a regular i.

Madb is thus a contraction of Madhbh, dots were left off, which is easier to figure the pronunciation of, if you know the rules.

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