I'm with Roger and try to do it each time. Easy peasy instead of
fiddling with our anglo-centric keyboards.
Jill
On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 07:02 AM, Roger Collett wrote:
> If you are really worried by the lack of the accent, why not just Cut
> and
> Paste?
> Highlight "Árni ", <Ctrl> C then Just <Ctrl>V to give Árni .
>
> Roger(for those who wish to talk to the real Árni )
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Yet another trumpet for the chorus!
>
>
> on 4/18/03 3:31 PM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> And how do you get the squiggle, Douglas? I can't manage it -
>>
>> Ha, Alison, I seem to be able to get it by hitting option plus capital
>> while hitting the A, but that's on my Mac Word.
>>
>> However, you'll have seen by now that it's NOT Icelandic, but only
>> Danish
>> (I am, of course, mortified, & don't know what to do).
>
> Souglas, I don't mind it at all, it just looks funny peculiar. It's a
> Danish
> letter, also found in Swedish. We call Ĺ and ĺ an a with a bun, but
> it's
> pronounced like a long o. Which reminds me the Danes have a funny name
> for
> @. They call it 'snabel-a', i.e. an a with a trunk. An Icelandic
> actress
> friend of mine moved to Sweden and changed the spelling of her first
> name so
> the Swedes would at least pronounce it correctly. So Bára became Baura.
>
> Best
>
> árni
>
>
> --
> Árni Ibsen
> Stekkjarkinn 19,
> 220 Hafnarfjördur,
> Iceland
>
> tel.: +354-555-3991
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/
>
>
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