Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)
| From: | Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 30, 2003, 0:42 |
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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> That's _caret_, 3d.sing.pres. of Latin care:re 'to be lacking'
>
Isn't caret the name of a vowel of the IPA (turned v, the sound of u in
cut)?
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Jean-François Colson
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