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Someone told me it was called a 'ligature'

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:49, archived)
It is indeed a ligature
which used to represent the Latin dipthong.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:51, archived)
And one shouldn't really use it anyway in Modern English
except within Brand names like Encyclopædia Brittanica.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:54, archived)
I think it's a dipthong,
a ligature is more like fi or ffi
(I helped save b3ta! robh, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:51, archived)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:53, archived)
It would appear that it is both a ligature and a dipthong.
Perhaps one refers to the pronunciation and the other to the glyph?
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:54, archived)
yes a dipthong is a combination of two vowel sounds in sequence,
such as "ay" or "ow"
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:56, archived)
Correct.
A dipthong is a vowel while a ligature is a glyph formed from two graphemes.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:56, archived)
I wish I'd never brought it up.
Grammar threads make Baby Jesus Cry.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:57, archived)
this isn't grammar.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:58, archived)
Sorry did I say Grammar?
I meant Pedantry.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:59, archived)
Strictly speaking,
pedantry is undue attention to detail...
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:11, archived)
ARGH!
FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:13, archived)
i for one am LOVING IT

(I helped save b3ta! sleepybinky, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:03, archived)
*moistens*

(I helped save b3ta! sleepybinky, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:03, archived)
*approves*

(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:05, archived)
At last!
I'm not alone in loving language and linguistics!
(I helped save b3ta! DeSpong currently knitting your suggestions - see profile, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:10, archived)
*appreciates your alliteration*

(I helped save b3ta! sleepybinky, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:12, archived)
I like language.
Speaking it and listening to it and finding out all the origins of the words and stuff. It's very interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:13, archived)
mmmmmm.

(I helped save b3ta! sleepybinky, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:14, archived)
yes yes yes!

(I helped save b3ta! DeSpong currently knitting your suggestions - see profile, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:16, archived)
I fucking LOVE it.

(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:18, archived)
yes this

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:33, archived)
many moons ago
I used to be a compositor and in the type cases, there were separate compartments for dipthongs and ligatures.

Two vowels together were difficult to put together using type, so one piece of type was created called a dipthong.

/sad old fart blog
(I helped save b3ta! robh, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:59, archived)
You're not a sad old fart.
You are a LOVELY old fart.
(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:02, archived)
hello sexeh!
*squoooozles*
(I helped save b3ta! robh, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:07, archived)
Indeed.
In typography, a distinction was made between ligatures for contextual forms and ligatures representing dipthongs. This is because, for example, an æ should not be used to replace ae, while one of the fi ligatures may be selected as required. æ is a letter in its own right, while the typographical ligatures are not.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:03, archived)
GIN TONIGHT.

(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:05, archived)
Damn right!

(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:06, archived)
I like your flickr pics too
:)

Edit: Oil on water detail is superb!!
(I helped save b3ta! robh, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:09, archived)
Thanks.
Been a little slack at taking photos recently, and even slacker at uploading them.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:12, archived)
lol
Its not the only part of you that's been a bit slack.

your bumtubes.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:13, archived)
i want to take nice photos.
i like the scottish landscape ones there. MARVELLOUS.
(I helped save b3ta! sleepybinky, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:14, archived)
Do it then.
At Gualachulain it's really difficult to take a bad one.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:16, archived)
Æ (minuscule: æ) is a grapheme

(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:55, archived)
So are a and e
so æ is a ligature.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:58, archived)
a dipthong is a sound, not a symbol.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:55, archived)
piss

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 11:56, archived)
Your dipthong smells like someone's dipbutt.

(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:14, archived)