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  2. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...

  3. Œ - Wikipedia

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    for an œ ~ oe ~ e in a closed syllable anywhere as long as it bears some stress (so this overlaps with the preceding category), as in œstrogenic, œstrogen, and œstrus; for an œ ~ oe ~ e in a primary-stressed syllable that does not lie within the final two syllables of the word (except for words like cœliac and Mœsia(n), see above).

  4. Ö - Wikipedia

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    Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis.Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O.

  5. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...

  6. Open-mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Occurs naturally in the language, most frequently in western and northern regions, alternating with ø in many words, and rendered under the letter 'œ', while [ø] is under the letter ö. Danish: Standard [9] gøre [ˈkœːɐ] 'to do' Typically transcribed in IPA with ɶː . See Danish phonology: Dutch: Standard [10] [11] manoeuvre ...

  7. Ligature (writing) - Wikipedia

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    In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.Examples are the characters æ and œ used in English and French, in which the letters a and e are joined for the first ligature and the letters o and e are joined for the second ligature.

  8. Oe - Wikipedia

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    Oe; Open front rounded vowel or ɶ; Open-mid front rounded vowel or œ; Ö, a character sometimes representing 'oe', appearing in some Germanic, Turkic, and Uralic languages; Ø, a Northern European (Danish, Faroese, Norwegian) or Sami vowel, representing œ, 'oe' diphthong etc. Ө, a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet

  9. Swedish alphabet - Wikipedia

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    It contains 20 consonants and 9 vowels ( a e i o u y å ä ö ). The Latin alphabet was brought to Sweden along with the Christianization of the population, although runes continued in use throughout the first centuries of Christianity, even for ecclesiastic purposes, despite their traditional relation to the Old Norse religion .