Note 8 — SOME ALTERNATIVE OR DIFFICULT SPELLINGS

The sign [¨] sometimes placed over the second of two vowels in an English word to indicate that they are to be pronounced separately, is so called by a compositor. By the way, this sign is now used only for learned or foreign words; not in chaos or in dais, for instance. Naïve and naïveté still require it, however (see pp. 35, 37).—H. H.