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Re: No W
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Date: 
Mon, 17 May 1999 23:25:56 GMT
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On Mon, 17 May 1999 16:51:07 GMT, Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote:

> I was looking through the 226 Idea Book from 1982 the other day and
> noticed something odd.  There is a page which suggests making letters
> and numbers from Lego bricks.  On two different examples the "W" is left
> out.  Possible explanations:
> 
> There is no "W" in the Danish alphabet.
> The "W" is too wide to model in Lego.
> The "W" was the first letter to disappear from the minifig alphabet.
> Subsequent generations dropped more and more letters, causing the
> keyboard of today to have so few letters.

Exactly.  As the town-juniorization of Lego continues, more letters will be
dropped from keyboards until, finally, all that is left is a space bar.

-- Terry K --



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<giggle> thanks Terry Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message news:3740a50a.231247...net.com... (...) be (...) (27 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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I was looking through the 226 Idea Book from 1982 the other day and noticed something odd. There is a page which suggests making letters and numbers from Lego bricks. On two different examples the "W" is left out. Possible explanations: There is no (...) (27 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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