Talk:rose'

RFV — failed
Previously RFVed, not added here. --Volants 14:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it's sloppy shorthand for an acute accent? Searching for Maltese documents with inbid (wine) and ros&eacute; produces a few matches with the acute in among Maltese text, e.g. Equinox 16:11, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It is almost certainly an effort to simulate an accent mark. Though I would strongly favor having the search engine treat this as possibly just such an attempt, there is much too much ambiguity in apostrophes to allow this in headwords, unless it actually is attestable. If such entries using apostrophes to simulate accents turn out to be attestable, we have a larger policy/technical issue to deal with. DCDuring TALK 16:26, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * One form of this technique is common in Italian newspapers, where È: is often written as "E'" to avoid a rather tall character. SemperBlotto 16:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, in informal/lazy contexts, < ' > is often used for an acute accent, whereas < ` > is used for a grave accent (both are accessible by single keystrokes on a basic QWERTY keyboard). †  ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 20:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh TALK 19:32, 5 March 2009 (UTC)