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Plural Letters
In English you can dot the i’s and cross the t’s. In English, when you want to say the name of a letter in the plural, you add an apostrophe and an s. The pronunciation of this is intuitive enough, something like /kross ðə ti:z/.
In Catalan it is done differently: The letter is written twice! I’ve seen this in two places: Badia’s Gramàtica and the Catalan Wikipedia. Badia says, p. 782:
Pel que fa a les ee i a les oo…
An Wikipedia says:
Al català existeix la possiblitat d’accentuar obert o tancat moltes ee
And i’ve got to admit that i don’t know how it is pronounced.
