Michael Everson writes: > >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. > > This doesn't make any sense to me, but in any case it does not > explain the origin of the word "caron". The most plausible suggestion > I've ever come up with is folk-etymological: It's a CARet that sits > ON the vowel. :-(
Isn't a caron a model (or trademark?) for crochet hooks?
When I look at some handwritten texts using hacek, it looks much
more like a rounded and oblique crochet hook than to a
reversed circumflex (as seen in Unicode charts).
The handwritten hacek glyph looks approximately like this,
it is completely rounded without the angular shape:
(select a monospace font to view it)
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It is easily read distinctly from the breve and accute accents,
and it's not even a mirrored comma above.
The glyph is visibly drawn as a continuous stroke from the
middle-left to the thiner upper-right.
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