Re: three questions about alphabet files at Michael Everson site

From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@xs4all.nl)
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 13:37:05 CST

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    Charles Levert wrote:
    > Words appearing in French dictionaries and containing (Ñ ñ) and
    > others not on this list are usually marked as still being foreign
    > words, but not yet French words of foreign origin. For example:
    >
    > cañon (mot espagnol), also spelled canyon
    > maelström (mot néerlandais), also spelled malstrom

    I am dutch and I am rather surprised to see that maelström is a mot
    néerlandais.
    I always thought it was a scandinavian word.

    Is the ö supposed to be an o umlaut or an o diaeresis?

    Chris

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