By: Elliot Lee

Elliot Lee — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:06:28 +0000

Thanks, andrew. I took 4 years of Spanish but never came across any circumflexes (if that’s the correct plural).

By: andrew247

andrew247 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:21:55 +0000

Did you not do a foreign language at school?
A circumflex is normally on top of a letter, like this: ê, and is used to mark missing letters.
E.g. In French, tête [head] is derived from the Latin “teste”. The circumfex is used to mark the missing ’s’.
The caret is a circumflex moved off the top of a letter into it’s own space - they mean the same, but I think depending on where they are positioned in a word, they have diferent names.
But I dropped Latin a few years ago, and French this year, so I might be wrong.

By: Randy Johnston

Randy Johnston — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:24:40 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex

Comments on: Circumflex

By: Elliot Lee

By: andrew247

By: Randy Johnston