RE: [OT] o-circumflex

[Ayers, Mike]

> From: J M Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 07:50 AM

> The classic example is 'resume' and 'résumé'. These are, by 
> now, two quite
> distinct words, and the fact that there is no 'established' 
> order is shown

        I spell both "resume" and have never been corrected.  Words with the
same spelling and different pronunciation are uncommon but exist in English,
the classic example being "read" and its own past tense.  Since there are no
diacritics in English proper, the two "resume"s tend to fall into this
category.  The diacritics which often appear on one of them really only
serve to mark it as a loan word, since it is very difficult to come up with
a sentence in which the two could be confused.


/|/|ike