Citations:hácek

English citations of hácek

variant of háček

• 1995 December 1st, “Ian Tresman” (user name), comp.text.sgml (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Q: what’s a caron?”, Message ID: <30be3a2c.33721148@news.easynet.co.uk>#1/1

  This is from the Multilingual PC Directory:
  caron (caron)
  An accent mark placed above a character. Used in languages such as Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Wendic and many transliterated languages. (Also called a Hácek mark). (cf. accents).

• 1997 June 17th, “Marius Svenkerud” (user name), sci.lang (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Russian transliteration (was: Peking versus Beijing (was: Re: Chinese/Japanese ‘l’/‘r’))”, Message ID: <5o6bci$gpk$1@o.online.no>#1/1

  Beside of these transliteration systems that you mention from America, there are the German system (Jelzin, Tschaikowsky), the Serbocroat(?) system (Jelcin, C<hácek>ernomirdin), and there used to be (since the 70s) a common Scandinavian system that wasn’t always followed.

• 2003 February 7th (3:51pm), “Emil Jelstrup” (user name), misc.transport.rail.europe (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Train Riga or Vilnius to Tallinn?”, Message ID: <3E43C7E3.E14253A3@post7.tele.dk>

  Lugazi (the “z” is with caron/hácek), or Lugazhi in transliterated Cyrillic.

• 2004 June 23rd (10:16am), “Jezebel” (user name), microsoft.public.word.printingfonts (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: inverted circumflex”, Message ID: <#sdcIdLWEHA.2952@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>

  A hacek or hácek (“?”, pronounced HUH-check), also known as a caron, is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate palatalization or jotation in the orthography of some Slavic and Baltic languages.

• 2006 October 25th (1:53pm), “Art Neuendorffer” (user name), humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare (Usenet newsgroup), “Oxford could not have written the *CARON*”, Message ID: <1161809633.467363.174870@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>

  A *HACEK* or hácek (pronounced “ˈhatchek”), a.k.a. *CARON* is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate palatalization in the orthography of some Slavonic languages, such as Czech, and the Baltic languages.

• 2006 October 25th (4:53pm), “Michael Pronay” (user name), alt.food.wine (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Just back from Piedmont”, Message ID: <Xns9867ABC24918Fpronaygmxat@pronay.com>

  There’s no “hácek” (inversed ^) either, which is a problem when writing about eastern European wines.