New spelling: _genr=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9=5F_?=or _genre'_

[Barbara Need]

I have not seen this particular spelling, but one of my students  
spells her name with e' rather than é.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Etna, NY

On 22 Sep 2014, at 12:58 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> I see it everywhere, especially in comments/responses.
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> Motivated by the desire to make a foreign word *look* foreign?
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> Youneverknow.
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