"Ogonek" not in OED2

[Joel S. Berson]

The international standards' term is "ogonek".  Viz. ISO and Unicode.

Joel

At 5/28/2007 11:23 AM, you wrote:
>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.
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>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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