Umlauts
| From: | Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 31, 2003, 2:25 |
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"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> ha tera a:
>On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:42:32AM +0100, Jean-Fran�ois Colson
wrote:
> > Isn't caret the name of a vowel of the IPA (turned v, the sound of
> > u in cut)?
> Nope. That's just called a "turned V".
Well, all or most of my linguistics professors have called it /kEr@t/.
For at least a year or two I assumed this was spelt "carrot", and most
of my classmates that I've talked to thought the same. I began to
suspect it might actually be "caret" when I stumbled accross the
proofreading term. I'm not sure I've ever seen one of my professors
spell the word.
Estel
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