From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 10:21:10 EST
John Cowan wrote:
> The most mysterious term is "caron" for the hacek accent: this word
> seems to exist only in ISO standards, and nobody has any idea where it
> came from.
I think it may have occured in some typographic terminology, because
the intial glyph looked more like a crochet hook than to a reversed
circumflex, i.e. caron was not angular in handwritten form,
as it is now in typesetted fonts, but looked like a rounded and oblique
check mark (a slight variation of the accute accent with a small
rounded hook on its bottom end, but still much more distinctful from
the lower half-circle form used by breve).
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