[USMA:11114] Vowel Modifiers

[Gene Mechtly]

        Thanks Kent (and Bill Potts).  I stand corrected.
        The term I should have used for vowel modifiers in general is
"diacritic" (at lease in English although not in Swedish).
Gene.
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Kent K. Steinbrenner wrote:

> In USMA 11062, Gene Mechtly makes reference to trying to "expand" what he
> thought were umlauts in the Swedish word "Angstrom." Although it would be
> correct to render the final "o" as "oe" if the o-umlaut would not render
> properly, the correct form for rendering "a" -- the a-ring symbol -- is "aa"
> ...