Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > chroot = tchroot (Ch as in Chekhov + root - there's an unavoidable very > short middle e or a sound as you say it because you can't easily go from > one syllable to the other)
It's called schwa, and represented by a lowercase `e' rotated 180
degrees about the axis perpendicular to the paper (screen :-),
presumably the way a typesetter could flip an `e' without casting a new
glyph.
Don't you feel better now, knowing this? :-)
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Best wishes,
Max Hyre
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