"Circumflex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marks is: Macron (straight line over letter) [x] Umlaut (2 dots over letter) [:x] Grave accent ['x] Acute accent ['x] Circumflex [^x] Breve (u-shaped symbol over ...
— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar
... but must stand isolated in our thoughts, have their interest. Even lists of exceptions have their interest. If we are studying Greek accents it is interesting to know that pais and pas, and some other monosyllables of the same form of declension, do not take the circumflex upon the last syllable of the genitive plural, but vary, in this respect, from the common rule. If we are studying physiology, it is interesting to know that the pulmonary artery carries dark blood and the pulmonary vein carries bright blood, departing in this respect ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold |
