Silly newbie question - Carrot character (^)

[Matty Sarro]

It's ok, people who refer to a labret piercing as a "la-BRAY" piercing are
also incorrect. It's pronounced lab-RET, as its base word is the latin
"labretta." French as a language shall doom us all :)

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Philip Semanchuk <philip at semanchuk.com>wrote:

>
> On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Peter Pearson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:12:05 -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> >>
> >> BTW the more common name for this character is caret (ka-RAY).
> >
> > Yes, it's caret, but no, it's KA-rit, almost the same as
> > carrot.  It's straight from Latin, with no detour through
> > French.
>
> This I did not know (obviously). Thanks. I knew all those years of studying
> French would ruin me somehow.
>
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