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

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 03:21  PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>>>> Nevertheless, the standards community has adopted "diaeresis" as the
>> general
>>>> name, so we are stuck with it.  They also call the hacek "caron",
>>>> and no
>> one
>>>> knows why.
>>>
>>> What's the etymology of "caron", BTW?
>>
>> That's just what I meant by "no one knows why"; the etymology is
>> unknown,
>> and the term seems to exist only in ISO character standards.
>
> Hm, American Heritage Dictionary doesn't recognize it ... but it does
> recognize "hacek". Those ISOites are playing some malevolent joke on
> us,
> methinks.
>                                                         Andreas
Isn't "caron" also the name of the hacek-like or upside-down hacek-like
mark used in proofreading to show an insertion into the text?


-Stephen (Steg)
  "yajee' assalaam `alaynaa..."

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