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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).
Some American spellings replace ligatured vowels with a single letter; for example, gynæcology or gynaecology is spelled gynecology. The fl and fi ligatures, among others, are still commonly used to render modern text in fine typography.
The (near-)open front rounded vowel, or (near-)low front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound that has not been confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken language.[citation needed] The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɶ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &.
One Scandinavian language, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close front rounded vowel, with Swedish examples of both types of rounding). As there are no diacritics in the IPA to distinguish protruded and compressed rounding, an old diacritic for labialization, ̫ , will be used here as an ad hoc symbol ...
In most later handwritings these bars in turn nearly became dots. The origin of the letter ö was a similar ligature for the digraph OE: e was written above o and degenerated into two small dots. [citation needed] In some inscriptions and display typefaces, ö may be represented as an o with a small letter e inside.
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Old English, the English language spoken in the Early Middle Ages; Œ or œ, a ligature of o and e used in the modern French and medieval Latin alphabets; Oe; Open front rounded vowel or ɶ