{"id":49291,"date":"2025-05-06T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49291"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:27:46","slug":"language-what-is-a-ligature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/language-what-is-a-ligature\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: what is a ligature?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about printed language: the tutor mentions the idea of a ligature.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI thought I knew what a ligature is &#8211; something to tightly bind something with, such as a rope. Yet, it seems that ligature can have a different meaning in printing.<\/p>\n<p>\nA ligature in printing, apparently, is a construction of two letters together as one. We don&#8217;t seem to have them much in English, but in older texts, &aelig; used to appear: it&#8217;s a ligature.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlyoffice.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ligature\">onlyoffice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toptal.com\/designers\/htmlarrows\/letters\/lowercase-ae\/\">toptal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C., editor (2004). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary.<\/em> Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about printed language: the tutor mentions the idea of a ligature. I thought I knew what a ligature is &#8211; something to tightly bind something with, such as a rope. Yet, it seems that ligature can have a different &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/language-what-is-a-ligature\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language: what is a ligature?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3003],"tags":[3647],"class_list":["post-49291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49291"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49298,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291\/revisions\/49298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}