Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Nope, that's a "caret", which is where the ASCII character ^ gets
> its name.
>
> SOMEONE must know how "caron" got coined.  Ring up the ISO!
> Maybe they didn't want to use a word that sounded as Slavic
> as "hacek", eh?  Racists in the ISO!  Alert the media!  Investigative
> journalists: ATTACK!
>
Not only that, but, properly written, the word _hacek_ requires the use of
a(n) hacek, which cannot always be read by various browsers/emails........

I like Muke Tever's suggestion, that _caret_ was interpreted as a
diminutive, and _caron_ is viewed as an augmentive or something.  Or maybe
the homonymy with "carrot" bothered people. "Eddie Rabbit's mss. are full of
carets/carrots" :-)))))))))))