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More "Diacritical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Notes, so far as they are of any considerable importance, or supported by respectable authority. Partly for convenience, but chiefly as a matter of taste, I have ventured to follow the German editions in dispensing entirely with diacritical marks, and in some peculiarities of less importance, which if not viewed with favor, it is hoped, will not be judged with severity. The punctuation is the result of a diligent comparison of the best editions, together with a ...
— Germania and Agricola • Caius Cornelius Tacitus
... Current, Diacritical. A current, which, passing through a helix surrounding an iron core, brings it to one-half its magnetic ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... over-capatalized —> over-capitalized 2. p. 18 successfull —> successful 3. p. 23 benovelent —> benevolent 4. p. 60 ecocomists —> economists 5. p. 68 A macron diacritical mark, a straight line above a letter, is found on the first letter o, in the word Sosoku. This letter is indicated here by the coding [x] for a macron above any letter x. Thus, for example, the word Sosoku appears as S[o]soku in the text. 6. p. 76 staightforward —> straightforward ...
— The Arena - Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 • Various
... published at Colombo in 1837; and apprehensive that scepticism might assail the authenticity of a discovery so important, he accompanied his English version with a reprint of the original Pali in Roman characters with diacritical points. ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... 28 characters. These are the characters of English, but with "q", "w", "x", and "y" removed, and six diacritical letters added. The diacritical letters are "c", "g", "h", "j" and "s" with circumflexes (or "hats", as Esperantists fondly call them), and "u" with a breve. Zamenhof himself suggested that where the diacritical letters caused difficulty, one could instead use "ch", "gh", "hh", ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman
... customs of all the ancients, Ieyasu, with the insight of a master mind, found just the sanctions he desired. He had the Confucian classics printed—it is said for the first time in Japan—"and the whole intellect of the country became molded by Confucian ideas." The classics, edited with diacritical marks for Japanese students, "formed the chief vehicle of every boy's education." These were interpreted by learned Chinese commentators. The intelligence of the land drank of this stream as the European mind refreshed itself with the classic waters ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick
... wholly out of place in one whose purpose is that of the novel, to amuse rather than to instruct. Moreover the devices perplex the simple and teach nothing to the learned. Either the reader knows Arabic, in which case Greek letters, italics and "upper case," diacritical points and similar typographic oddities are, as a rule with some exceptions, unnecessary; or he does not know Arabic, when none of these expedients will be of the least use to him. Indeed it is a matter of secondary consideration ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
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