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Article #800Re: "Unaccented" languages
From: Jim Scobbie
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1987 07:44
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1987 07:44
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>>I was told once (by a respected linguist, as I recall) that English and
>>Russian are the ONLY two languages written with unaccented alphabets.
> For the sake of completeness, we should add that both Swedish and
>English do use "e" with acute accent, mainly in French loan words.
>(E.g. "clich'e")
In proper names in English, note also Scots McEachern etc with a small
"c" after the "M" sitting above the line as opposed to "Mac". It would
be nice to be able to reproduce this on machines. And even nowadays,
with all that bad grammar floating around :-), some of us still have
a circumflex above the "o" in role. (Yes, really.)
--
Jim Scobbie: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University,
2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND
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