Re: [OT] o-circumflex

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Jonathan Rosenne
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| This is not always the right thing to do. For example, with personal
| names the person involved may decide whether he prefers the old (AA)
| spelling or the new �. In any case they are equivalent.

This is true, but this is nothing particular to the aa/� distinction.
Many given names have a number of possible spellings, such as Astri /
Astrid, Cathrine / Katrine / Kathrine, Wenche / Venke / Venche, Espen
/ Esben, ...   In fact, given names which can be written both aa and �
are rare. I can only think of �ge offhand, and that is only rarely
written Aage in Norway (and the other way round in Denmark).

AA/� confusion is much more common in surnames, but there there is no
choice involved.

--Lars M.