Bill,
Thanks for sharing your better knowledge of the Swedish and
Norwegian languages. What can be said about Danish?
I tried too hard to express the characters used by the BIPM
without actually sending them exactly because they would not display
correctly for some subscribers in this forum.
However, the meaning of "umlaut" is modification of a vowel sound,
so that a circle over a vowel falls under this general meaning, but I
grant you that a circle over a vowel is not the same as two dots over the
vowel. What is the name for a circle over a vowel if not "umlaut"?
Gene.
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Bill Potts wrote:
> ...
> There is no umlaut over the A in angstrom, Gene. It's a unique
> Swedish/Norwegian letter (a with a circle over it -- pronounced "aw")...
