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VOWEL-LIGATURES[38] (Æ AND Œ)

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VOWEL-LIGATURES[38] (Æ AND Œ)

The combinations ae and oe should each be printed as two letters in Latin and Greek words, e.g. Aeneid, Aeschylus, Caesar, Oedipus; and in English, as mediaeval, phoenix. But in Old-English and in French words use the ligatures æ, œ, as Ælfred, Cædmon, manœuvre.

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