"Diacritical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know from the Jesuit vocabularies, the sound of r existed in the Onondaga dialect. Since their day this sound has disappeared from it entirely. In La Fort's manuscript the letter frequently occurred, but always, as his pronunciation showed, either as a diacritical sign following the vowel a, to give to that vowel the sound of a in "far," or else as representing itself this vowel sound. Thus the syllable which should properly be written sa was written by La Fort either sar or sr. But, though the language is modern, the speeches themselves, ...
— The Iroquois Book of Rites • Horatio Hale
... of the technical terms and all of the technical symbols of the linguistic academy. There is not a single diacritical mark in the book. Where possible, the discussion is based on English material. It was necessary, however, for the scheme of the book, which includes a consideration of the protean forms in which human thought has found expression, to quote some exotic instances. For these no apology ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir
... 1. Diacritical Marks in Characters' names; Ornulf, umlaut above the "O". Hiordis, umlaut above the "o". Kare, ring above the "A". 2. All the text inside parentheses in the original is printed in italics, save for the characters' names. I've ...
— The Vikings of Helgeland - The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. • Henrik Ibsen
... Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation matches the original document. | | | | This e-text contains characters with less common diacritics, | | non-ascii diacritical marks represented as follows: | | [vc] c with a caron above | | [VC] C with a caron above | | [VS] S with a caron above | | [)e] e with an accent breve above | | [o] o with a macron above | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected ...
— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke
... the names and spellings from the Chiefs of State link on the CIA Web site. The World Factbook is prepared using the standard American English computer keyboard and does not use any special characters, symbols, or most diacritical markings in its spellings. Surnames are always spelled with capital letters; they may appear first in ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... little Latin and some Greek in the original text. I have reproduced the Latin. The Greek text is omitted; its place is marked by the expression [Greek characters]. Italics and diacritical marks such as accents and ...
— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
... alphabets have been given wherever available. But the following two Phonetic diacritical marks do ...
— Rafael in Italy - A Geographical Reader • Etta Blaisdell McDonald
... mind, found just the sanctions he desired. He had the Confucian classics printed—it is said for the first time in Japan—"and the whole intellect of the country became molded by Confucian ideas." The classics, edited with diacritical marks for Japanese students, "formed the chief vehicle of every boy's education." These were interpreted by learned Chinese commentators. The intelligence of the land drank of this stream as the European ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick |
