Citations:inverted caret

unidiomatic use

 * 1823, George Jackson, Two New and Efficient Systems of Stenography, page 28
 * Learners employing the vowels must not use either the inverted caret v (a) or the dot, (e or i) except as vowels.


 * 1896, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen’s Magazine, volume 21, page 288
 * His name is fr. Netolicky, and he spells the fr., which is doubtless Francis (after the Emperor), or the Checkish therefor, with a small f. If you don’t put an inverted caret over the i, and an acute accent over the y, you don’t get his name right. This man is a Bohemian and like every other employe on this road (the “Northwest Private Austrian”) he must speak the two languages common to the Kingdom of Bohemia. Bohemian, as we call it, or Cesky, as they write it (with another inverted caret over the C), is an […]