Jan van Steenbergen ta nugatu-r:
>>I was once talking about fonts with a Polish man, and
>>I referred to the hook at the bottom of a and e (nasalization,
>>I believe) with the term "ogonek" ("tail," I believe). He
>>found this quite humorous. I asked what he would call it,
>>and he replied that he was not aware that the hook itself
>>had a name.
> That surprises me, because unless I've been misguided over the last 15
> years, these letters are part of the Polish alphabet under the name "a z
> ogonkiem" and "e z ogonkiem" (a resp. e with tail, indeed).
They are just called _ą_ [Ow~] and _ę_ [Ew~], although they are not
vowels.
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