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GUIDE: Special latin characters within Europe (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] SmoothOperator 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Weird that France has both œ and æ. I only ever saw the latter in Nordic languages, but apparently it is occasionally used in French.

[–] Uruanna 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

æ is in purely Latin words like ex æquo, et cætera, or curriculum vitæ, that's all. œ appears in œil (eye) so you see that a lot more commonly already, but I can't think of any other word that uses it off the top of my head (beside other derivated words like œillères). (pardon the puns)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sœur is pretty common too. And bœuf.

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