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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Weird that France has both œ and æ. I only ever saw the latter in Nordic languages, but apparently it is occasionally used in French.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

The Nordic languages use ö or ø instead, in Swedish also ä is used instead of æ.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia gives examples of "curriculum vitæ" and "et cætera." We use those both as loanwords in English, but I've only seen it as the separate letters "ae," not the ligature æ.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I assume direct loanwords are excluded from the list.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

æ is in purely Latin words like ex æquo, et cætera, or curriculum vitæ, that's all. œ appears in œil (eye) so you see that a lot more commonly already, but I can't think of any other word that uses it off the top of my head (beside other derivated words like œillères). (pardon the puns)

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

œuf and chœur as well, I suppose? Though I don't know if that is how they are commonly spelled