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United States Government Printing Office, Style Manual.<br>
Revised Edition, January 1967.<br>
p. 180, col. 3<br><br>
13.19. This list contains the signs and symbols frequently used in
printing by this office.<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman CE, Times" size=3>v caron<br><br>
[The symbol has the general appearance of a lower case, sans serif v; in
the table it, and other accent marks, are not raised.]<br><br>
The caron is the last in a list of "signs and symbols", among a
set of 10 symbols that are in sequence acute, grave, tilde, circumflex
[note], macron, breve, dieresis, cedilla, caret [note], caron. To
my eye, the circumflex and caret symbols are identical. Whether
this means that caron is a proofreader's symbol, like caret, or an
accent, like the other 8 symbols, I have no idea. "caron"
is not present in the index to this volume.<br><br>
The corresponding tables in the 1959 and 1953 editions of this manual do
not contain "caron"; they end with "caret".<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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