[cairo] Serious concerns about cairo

[Mike Emmel]

On 9/24/06, Ralph Giles <giles at ghostscript.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:50:53PM -0700, Mike Emmel wrote:
>
> > Googling gives both spellings.
>
> But 'demotic' wins the fight 7:1 :)
>
> That's the proper spelling as far as I know, and 'dict', my middle
> egyptian grammar, and the first google  hit for 'demontic' all agree.
>
> *shrug*
>
>  -r
>
To make it worse.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/demotic

Says its Greek :)

http://www.waonline.org.uk/resources/html/rosetta.htm
Gives the spelling
Demontic for the Egyptian venacular language.
And the page is World Archeology online.

I agree I think its a miss spelling thats been propagated.

Now this url

http://i-cias.com/e.o/demotic.htm

Is cool actually has a fragment of the language if that doesn't it look
similar to Arabic  even though its not claimed to be and ancestor language for
Arabic. I wonder if it had more influence on modern scripts such as
arabic and hebrew then is acknowledged.

Anyway I agree I'm wrong mislead I suspect by World Archeology :)