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Re: Weird stuff

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 25, 2001, 21:58
> >Well, I noted the A WITH HALF RING, which is unique to (some of) > >the Scandinavian languages. "Argle-bargle" = unintelligible text. > >Of course I was not serious. > > "A with half ring"? You mean an {å} (an {a} with a small, but full, circle > above)? Well yes that's AFAIK unique to the Scandinavian langs (tho' it > wouldn't surprise me if it's used somewhere else too - Czech has "u" with a > diacritic that looks the same).
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