In names like Aeschylus, or words like praetorium?
2007-09-11 05:34:56 · 0 answers · asked by John F 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Diphthong is the term for any two vowels sounded together. I'm looking for the name of the printed character ae.
2007-09-11 05:57:38 · update #1
It's a grapheme of A and E.
As a letter of the Old English alphabet, it was called æsc ‘ash tree' , but in modern English, it's just referred to as "ash"
2007-09-11 05:57:06 · answer #1 · answered by Chelsea79 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ae Symbol
2016-10-06 12:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"ash" is correct. Or more fully the "ash ligature". (A ligature is the name for two or more letters combined to form a single character.)
Another ligature you sometimes see in English isœ (o + e), called the "ethel" (which you might find in a word like "onomatopoeia").
Funny thing is I didn't learn about "ligatures" in English class (though I'd seen a few), but from reading German, where in place of a double-s at the end of a word you might see the ligature ß
2007-09-11 08:51:10 · answer #3 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no quarrel with the previous answer. On my computer one can print æ by holding down the Option key and striking the apostrophe (').
2007-09-11 06:03:02 · answer #4 · answered by anobium625 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Diphthong.
2007-09-11 05:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by picador 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋