>At 17:08 -0700 2001-10-08, Rick McGowan wrote:
>I saw your examples of these the other day in Greek text. The upper
>corners also occur widely. For example, they occur in Kenkyusha's
>Pocket Japanese English dictionary (and others) to denote syllabic
>stress. They are precisely the same kind of marks, as far as I can
>tell.
I saw examples of these in a Finnish book about Uralic linguistics
the other day. They're common enough in scholarly contexts in Europe.
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