[OT] McGuinness/margin in Polish Brooklyn

[Mark Mandel]

Is that a dot or a hook to the right (ogonek)? Polish uses that
diacritic. See http://www.omniglot.com/writing/polish.html

m a m

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Bruce Hunter <bhunter3 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Interested amateur lurker here. My dictionary ( English-Polish Polish
> English, J. Stanilawski {slashed l} David McKay Co. Inc.{no date}) says...
> 1) brzek (dot under e) - edge, brink, verge, coast, shore, bank, margin
> 2) krawedz (dot under e, acute z) - edge brim, border, verge
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Hunter


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