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

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 16:02
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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