Talk:Circumflex/Archive 1

THERE ARE NO CIRCUMFLEXES IN THIS passage to India
And the large diagram with the capital A's are all wearing inverted circumflexes. Please fix this someone! Nuttyskin 23:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation with Caret
Someone should disambig Cirumflex and Caret. ^ redirects here, but the caret is often used for exponents when superscripts aren't available; e.g., 5^2=25. Archola 28 August 2005

What's Naliuhn?
This is mentioned in this article, but the only Google result for it is this article another one Google with a list of languages. Maybe it was vandalism? --Awiseman 02:25, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks like it: Removed. Mucky Duck 12:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

New Orleans?
The intro says it's used in the dialect of American English around New Orleans. Does anyone have more info on this? Is it just the legacy of the French influence in that area? I didn't know dialects of English ever had standardised written variations. Rojomoke 09:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a complete lkoad of B.S. to me. --Nelson Ricardo 00:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Norwegian?
Norwegian alphabet don't used or rarely used this diacritic signal. In the Portuguese language uses a sign in â, ê an ô. Rarely used in î or û. --201.19.213.56 21:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Dutch and Frisian
As native Dutch and Frisian speaker I would like to share my information about this subject. In the article is written that the circumflex is used in Dutch, but it's used exceptionally in Dutch and can only be used on the 'e'. I suggest this to be added to the article.

The article is also mentioning Frisian, but doesn't add any additional information about the usage of the circonflex in Frisian while the circonflex is used often in Frisian. In Frisian it appears on the 'a', 'u', 'o', 'i', and 'e'.
 * On the 'a', 'o', 'e' to indicate an open vowel.
 * On the 'u' it's used to change its sound to 'u' as in German 'gut'.
 * According to the Frisian wikipedia also the 'î' is used, but I don't know when and where. If it's used at all it is used very rare and probably only in some dialects. If it's used it probably is used as 'ay' in the English word 'day'.

Changes to intro. section
It seems like the second and third paragraph of the intro section should be relocated to its own subcategory. The information contained is about inserting those diacritic marks onto charicters on a computer system. The information is good but just seems to be placed improperly. Your opinions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgardner19 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 1 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I have moved the technical information concerning computer character sets to the end of the article. I have also tried to organize the "Uses" section in a more logical way. – Simo Kaupinmäki (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

pronunciation of brôt
the combination ough was occasionally shortened to ô when the gh was not pronounced

What is (or was) the pronunciation of brôt? The same as thô? Does "combination" here mean "graphemes"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography) --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:20, 30 September 2019 (UTC)