"Ogonek" not in OED2

[Joseph Salmons]

Oh, then it really has to be in dictionaries.


On May 28, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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