John Cowan wrote: > The most mysterious term is "caron" for the hacek accent: this word > seems to exist only in ISO standards, and nobody has any idea where it > came from.
I think it may have occured in some typographic terminology, because the intial glyph looked more like a crochet hook than to a reversed circumflex, i.e. caron was not angular in handwritten form, as it is now in typesetted fonts, but looked like a rounded and oblique check mark (a slight variation of the accute accent with a small rounded hook on its bottom end, but still much more distinctful from the lower half-circle form used by breve). __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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