"Ogonek" not in OED2

[Joseph Salmons]

Isn't the ogonek usually called a 'Polish hook' or 'Polish tail' in
English? I don't use any other word for hacek — caron always sounded
odd, for example – so it seems more integrated into English somehow.


On May 28, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

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> Na pewno!
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>> "Ogonek" -- the diacritical mark named from the Polish for "little
>> tail" -- is not in OED2.  Deserves equal status with "hacek",
>> wouldn't one say?
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