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Typewriter with French (AZERTY) keyboard: à, è, é, ç ù have dedicated keys; the circumflex and diaeresis accents have dead keys On typewriters designed for languages that routinely use diacritics (accent marks), there are two possible ways to type these: keys can be dedicated to precomposed characters (with the diacritic included); alternatively a dead key mechanism can be provided.
The caret symbol can be written just below the line of text for a punctuation mark at low line position, such as a comma, or just above the line of text as an inverted caret (U+02C7 ˇ CARON) for a character at a higher line position, such as an apostrophe, or in either position to indicate insertion of a letter, word or phrase; [3] the ...
The circumflex is known as hirnod "long sign" or acen grom "crooked accent", but more usually and colloquially as to bach "little roof". It lengthens a stressed vowel (a, e, i, o, u, w, y), and is used particularly to differentiate between homographs; e.g. tan and tân, ffon and ffôn, gem and gêm, cyn and cŷn, or gwn and gŵn. However the ...
Latin Capital Letter Y with dot above U+1E8F ẏ Latin Small Letter Y with dot above U+1E90 Ẑ Latin Capital Letter Z with circumflex U+1E91 ẑ Latin Small Letter Z with circumflex U+1E92 Ẓ Latin Capital Letter Z with dot below U+1E93 ẓ Latin Small Letter Z with dot below U+1E94 Ẕ Latin Capital Letter Z with line below U+1E95 ẕ
The circumflex (ˆ) is mostly used to mark long vowels, so â, ê, î, ô, û, ŵ, ŷ are always long. However, not all long vowels are marked with a circumflex, so the letters a, e, i, o, u, w, y with no circumflex do not necessarily represent short vowels; see § Predicting vowel length from orthography.
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A "combination of factors" appear to have led a 15-year-old student to carry out a school shooting, police in Madison, Wisconsin, said Tuesday.
Police have charged a 22-year-old man over a stabbing on Christmas Eve in Gloucester. The attack happened at an address on Cromwell Street at about 01:40 GMT on Tuesday, Gloucestershire Police said.