Talk:hǎcek

RFV discussion
The discussion text that follows was removed from WT:RFV in this revision. — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 04:37, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Google Books can't pick up diacritics well, but this gets only five raw Google hits, including Wiktionary. I submit that this spelling, like haĉek, may be a misspelling (which we do not accept) rather than an alternative spelling (which we would accept if it had two more citations). (Alternatively, perhaps it's like cafe', where the diacritic gets moved.) - -sche (discuss) 02:27, 16 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I looked at the other four Google hits; they are all just quadruplicates of this page. It has *undefined: occurring in this sentence: "As someone with minimal familiarity with Czech/Slovak, I had two questions regarding the form of the hǎcek."; however, the discussion title is "Anyone familiar with Czech? Haček question", and the rest of the first post has "First, I was wondering whether it would be terribly unnatural to use the ‘standard’ form of the haček on a lowercase ‘t’ if the form of that letter has no ascender." and "Second, I was wondering how closely the design of the haček must follow the design of the apostrophe for lowercase letters." The inconsistent use is very suspicious. If that user (agisaak) uses Mac OS X and has a US- or Irish-Extended keyboard layout, it could very plausibly have been an error; had he, in place of:
 * h, a, option+v, c, e, k
 * typed:
 * h, option+v, a, c, e, k
 * he would have got hǎcek instead of haček — an easy mistake to make. As for the 1985 quot., I don't see undefined: (in any spelling) occurring in the rest of the text, so there's no way to test consistency. However, since there seems to be no etymological, pronunciatory, or other reason why one would write *undefined: instead of undefined:, I am inclined to conclude, in the light of the other use which looks like a mistake, that Grambs' use is a mistake, too, and that *undefined:, where it occurs, is a misspelling. — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 03:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

RFV failed. Entry deleted. — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 04:30, 25 February 2012 (UTC)