Re: [OT] o-circumflex

From: Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@garshol.priv.no)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 17:54:59 EDT

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* Lars Marius Garshol
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| I am not sure of this, but I think 'å' is a relatively modern
| invention, and that it was originally written only as 'aa'.

* Stefan Persson
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| FYI, "a relatively modern invention" means that is has been used
| since the Medieval (in Swedish).

I don't think that is the case in Norwegian and Danish. The Norwegian
constitution from 1814, for example, uses 'ø' and 'æ', but never 'å'.
Possibly this was a Swedish invention only adopted later by the Danes
and Norwegians.

--Lars M.

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