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GUIDE: Special latin characters within Europe (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Weird that France has both œ and æ. I only ever saw the latter in Nordic languages, but apparently it is occasionally used in French.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

æ is in purely Latin words like ex æquo, et cætera, or curriculum vitæ, that's all. œ appears in œil (eye) so you see that a lot more commonly already, but I can't think of any other word that uses it off the top of my head (beside other derivated words like œillères). (pardon the puns)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

œuf and chœur as well, I suppose? Though I don't know if that is how they are commonly spelled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Œuvre too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You're correct. Chœur is chorus and cœur is heart BTW.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sœur is pretty common too. And bœuf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which means that æ ends up also appearing in English in those same Latin words (although they're possibly more lax with alternate spellings).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It appears (but now rarely) in the very English and not at all Latin word encyclopædia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia gives examples of "curriculum vitæ" and "et cætera." We use those both as loanwords in English, but I've only seen it as the separate letters "ae," not the ligature æ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I assume direct loanwords are excluded from the list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Nordic languages use ö or ø instead, in Swedish also ä is used instead of æ.