I remember a proposed French spelling adjustment that would have eliminated some maybe all? circumflexes. ❋ Tia Nevitt (2008)
In Kidd's article she learns that the disputed accents in ink and blueish pencil in Crème de la crème on a typescript at Buffalo are recorded identically on prototype page 29 and final synoptic edition page 370. since both fail to record the author's inked circumflexes beneath the pencilled grave accents she assumes that the facsimile transcriptions were checked neither before nor after 1979. ❋ Adams, Robert M. (1988)
Joyce's circumflexes are unreported because they are obscured by the blue pencil, which appears black in photocopies (Joyce Archive, Vol. 12, p. 316). ❋ Kidd, John (1988)
The phrase is in Bloom's mind, so the circumflexes instead of the usual accents graves (è) may be his slip, not Joyce's. ❋ Kidd, John (1988)
He had a long, sad face, like a tired workhorse's, and heavy black eyebrows that curved high in the middle and arched downward at each end -- circumflexes accenting the incurable stupidity of his expression. ❋ Unknown (1910)
This file has been encoded in UTF-8 and uses unicode characters in order to correctly display the full range of diacritics found in the original text, namely: breves (e.g. ĕ), indicating short vowels; circumflexes (e.g. â) indicating long vowels; vowels with diaeresis (e.g. ä) indicating vowels which should be sounded separately. ❋ Hugh Charles Clifford (1903)
Qaai, which comprises 'inherited' characters; these are combining characters like circumflexes and umlauts, and ❋ Unknown (2009)
This means that NeoOffice will handle reading and writing of Western European characters (e.g. characters with accents, umlauts, circumflexes, cedillas, etc.) and some fonts will even handle Japanese, Chinese, and Korean ideographs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And I find it gratifying that Jonathan Williams, the proprietor of The Jargon Society at the time, allowed Cutts the honour of his own orthography (complete with epenthetic u's and circumflexes) and punctuation-allowing him to be true to his language. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I know there are french and spanish books available for Kindle, so it will support at least basic stuff like c-cedilla, n-tilde, circumflexes, accents, umlauts, thorn, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)
_noble's painted hall_, the inflections are _rising circumflexes_ and _falling circumflexes_. ❋ J. Marshall Hawkes (N/A)
Although that is theoretically true, I don’t see much sign of it having a practical effect yet any more than I see the disappearance of all the circumflexes that were abolished in French about 20 years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One gets a picture of the scene: The thin and deficient shadows stretching themselves across the parched bottom lands as the sun slid down behind the trees of Eden's swamp lot; the heat waves of a blistering hot day still dancing their devil's dance down the road like wriggling circumflexes to accent a false promise of coolness off there in the distance; the ominous emptiness of the landscape; the brooding quiet, cut through only by the frogs and the dry flies tuning up for their evening concert; the bandannaed negress wrangling at the weeds with her hoe blade inside the rail fence; and, half sheltered within the lintels of the office doorway of his mill, Dudley Stackpole, a slim, still figure, watching up the crossroad for the coming of his adversaries. ❋ Various (1915)
She came across another burst of foreign languages, many words decorated with acute accents, circumflexes and other marks whose names she couldn’t think of. ❋ Don DeLillo (2007)
This is one instance of war in which the French troops aren’t yet ready to lay down their circumflexes. ❋ Praguetory (2006)
Person 1: (using [quotation marks] to pretend to be someone else) "Oh hey, someone just called out the monster spawn that I'm at. Better [kill it] before anyone else gets here!"
Person 2: ^ (circumflex accent)
Person 3: ^ (circumflex accent)
Person 4: [Sounds about right]. ❋ Erk Gloom (2018)
Person 1: Stop circumflexing [on me] [m8]!
Person 2: Never nigga i'm [forever nigga]! ❋ NillerKasket (2019)
❋ Shawn B. (2003)
