Æ

A: When the letters “a” and “e” are printed as one squished-together symbol—“æ”—they form what is known as a digraph (a two-letter symbol) or a ligature. This symbol represents a diphthong—one sound gliding into another within the same syllable.

The pair ‘ae’ or the single mushed together symbol ‘æ’, is not pronounced as two separate vowels. It comes (almost always) from a borrowing from Latin. In the original Latin it is pronounced as /ai/ (in IPA) or to rhyme with the word ‘eye’. But, for whatever reason, it is usually pronounced as ‘/iy/’ or “ee”.

æ/Æ – ä/Ä These letters represent a sound that’s roughly like the vowel in ‘hat’ and ‘man’ . The Swedes use the characters ä/Ä (small/capital), in Norway and Denmark they use æ/Æ.

Æ (minuscule: æ) is a grapheme named aesc or ash, formed from the letters a and e. Originally a ligature representing a Latin diphthong, it has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of some languages, including Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Faroese.

To pronounce the ö-sound, say “ay” as in day (or as in the German word See). While continuing to make this sound, tightly round your lips. Look in a mirror to make sure your lips are actually rounded. Voilà!

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. In many languages, the letter “ö”, or the “o” modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the non-close front rounded vowels [ø] or [œ].

In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart. It’s also possible to use the uppercase ẞ.

Germany and Austria. Ö or ö is one of the 4 extra letters used in German. It can be replaced by using the letters Oe or oe.

colon

German has three extra vowels: ä, ö, and ü. The German word for those curious double dots over the vowels is Umlaut (oom-lout) (umlaut). Umlauts slightly alter the sound of the vowels a, o, and u, as outlined in this table. These sounds have no equivalent in English.

Often mistakenly called an umlaut, a diaeresis (pronounced “die heiresses”; it’s from the Greek for “divide,” and is devilishly hard to spell) consists of two dots carefully centered over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “reëlection.” An umlaut is a German thing that alters the pronunciation of a vowel ( …

So Zoë is pronounced Zo-ee, as distinct from rhyming with Joe. It looks identical to the Germanic umlaut, but the umlaut is used to change the pronunciation of a vowel, and historically derived from a small <e>. The diaeresis OTOH has been two dots since it was invented for Hellenistic Greek.

The Trema (L’Accent Tréma) in French Finally, we have the trema: two little dots above a letter. It can be found above an “e”, “i”, or “u”: ë, ï, ü. The trema is also sometimes called a “diaeresis” or “umlaut”, although technically it’s not an umlaut.

Ë appears in words like French Noël. Like in Dutch, it is used to indicate that the vowel should not be monophthonged. For example, Noël is pronounced [nɔɛl], whilst Noel would be pronounced [nœl].

The 5 French Accents are:

• Accent Aigu (é)
• Accent Grave (è)
• Accent Circonflexe (ê)
• “C” cédille (ç)
• Tréma (ë)

The condoms used in Ancient Rome were made of linen and animal (sheep and goat) intestine or bladder. It is possible that they used muscle tissue from dead combatants but no hard evidence for this exists.

French Letter may refer to: Condom, a birth control device.

Talking about French numbers 0 to 100

• zéro. zero.
• un. one.
• deux. two.
• trois. three.
• quatre. four.
• cinq. five.
• six. six.
• sept. seven.

—used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or the success or appropriateness of an argument, an accusation, or a witty point.

reciprocate

Reply: “Thank you!…If you don’t care, then option 3 is the best approach.

1. Disagree and correct them. Just reply to the point and no more.
2. Agree with them. A simple sentence agreeing with the comments.
3. Ignore them. Better if you want no trolls and to be in peace.