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Topic: Circumflex


  
 Circumflex at opensource encyclopedia
In English, the circumflex is sometimes used on loanwords; for example, rôle.
In Welsh the circumflex (to bach) is used in single-syllable words to show the difference between other words that have the same spelling.
It may also be used as an alternative to the macron for marking long vowels in the Hepburn system.
http://www.wiki.tatet.com/%ce.html   (322 words)

  
 Dutch language - Free Encyclopedia
Other diacritical marks such as the circumflex only occur on a few words, most of them loanwords from the French language.
The most important dictionary of the modern Dutch language is the Van Dale groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal[1], more commonly referred to as the Dikke van Dale ("dik" is Dutch for "fat" or "thick").
http://www.wacklepedia.com/d/du/dutch_language.html   (1470 words)

  
 circumflex - definition of circumflex by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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circumflex - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/circumflex   (170 words)

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