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Usenet Posted 22 years ago
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Role or r^ole?

Hallo,
I have another question which may be related to 'old' fashioned English. I've seen in several publications the word 'role' written with a accent circumflex above the o (i.e. rôle instead of role).

Is this still common, or has it been a fashion long gone?

Thank you!
Gunter
  

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[nq:1]Hallo, I have another question which may be related to 'old' fashioned English. I've seen in several publications the word ... e.

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  • [nq:1]Hallo, I have another question which may be related to 'old' fashioned English.
  • I've seen in several publications the word ...
  • e.
  • rôle instead of role).
  • [/nq] Both spellings are used but in typed texts (as distinct perhaps from typeset texts) the form without the circumflex is more common - most English-language typewriters don't have a key to insert the circumflex.
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[nq:1]Hallo, I have another question which may be related to 'old' fashioned English. I've seen in several publications the word ... above the o (i.e. rôle instead of role). Is this still common, or has it been a fashion long gone?[/nq]
Both spellings are used but in typed texts (as distinct perhaps from typeset texts) the form without the circumflex is more common - most English-language type
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Hello everybody!
As I studied French in middle-school I can suppose that "r^ole" is French spelling. The Normans brought many French words to English.. Thank you for attention.
Vladimir. Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
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