Re: How to tell Scots Gaelic and Irish Gealic apart ?

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:36:59 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:4319ED4A.431@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:28:56 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
>> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> <news:4319A517.23D1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

>> [...]

>>> It didn't help that he tossed that French phrase into the sentence
>>> without warning. The English is "grave accent," just like "acute
>>> accent."

>> Because for some reason I've heard it only as an accent
>> grave, and 'grave accent' just sounds wrong to me.

> Then you should use "accent aigu" alongside it, which will both alert
> the reader that you're referring to the more marked of the two
> diacritics, and that you're using the marked word order.

The point is that in both cases I'm using what is for me the
unmarked order.

Brian
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