three questions about alphabet files at Michael Everson site (original) (raw)

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Charles Levert wrote:
> Words appearing in French dictionaries and containing (Ñ ñ) and
> others not on this list are usually marked as still being foreign
> words, but not yet French words of foreign origin. For example:
>
> cañon (mot espagnol), also spelled canyon
> maelström (mot néerlandais), also spelled malstrom

I am dutch and I am rather surprised to see that maelström is a mot
néerlandais.
I always thought it was a scandinavian word.

Is the ö supposed to be an o umlaut or an o diaeresis?

Chris

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