Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

Alan Cox
2002-03-17T18:05:16Z

> > That's not an umlaut, that's an "ae", which is a real letter in Finnish and
> > Swedish (it just _looks_ like an a with an umlaut to you uncultured
> > people), and it happens to be a letter that is just left of the ' mark on
> > a Finnish keyboard.
>
> Hey, careful there! Those English speakers stole that name from German,
> and in German those umlauts are real letters, too. Incidentally, my ae is
> next to the '# key ...

There are still a couple of places you can legitimaely use an ae symbol in
English. It's not quite dead yet 8)