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

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

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