On a Friday afternoon here's something that, I hope, might amuse some Latinists. Out of the flotsam of an old research project that will never get finished, I've set up a twitter feed that will give you a daily versus differentialis of the sort associated with Serlo de Wilton, distinguishing homonyms with short or long penultimate vowels, like this:
Est uitrum saphĭrum, pro gemma dico saphīrum.
The feed can be followed at https://twitter.com/versdiff , and the verses also get posted to a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VersusDifferentiales and to a Wordpress blog at http://versdiff.wallandbinkley.com/ where there's some background information and a bit of scholarly apparatus.
Peter
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