From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 12:20:04 EST
Michael Everson writes:
> >John Cowan wrote:
> >> The most mysterious term is "caron" for the hacek accent: this word
> >> seems to exist only in ISO standards, and nobody has any idea where it
> >> came from.
>
> This doesn't make any sense to me, but in any case it does not
> explain the origin of the word "caron". The most plausible suggestion
> I've ever come up with is folk-etymological: It's a CARet that sits
> ON the vowel. :-(
Isn't a caron a model (or trademark?) for crochet hooks?
When I look at some handwritten texts using hacek, it looks much
more like a rounded and oblique crochet hook than to a
reversed circumflex (as seen in Unicode charts).
The handwritten hacek glyph looks approximately like this,
it is completely rounded without the angular shape:
(select a monospace font to view it)
##
###
###
### ###
#### ###
### ###
#### ####
############
######
It is easily read distinctly from the breve and accute accents,
and it's not even a mirrored comma above.
The glyph is visibly drawn as a continuous stroke from the
middle-left to the thiner upper-right.
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