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There鈥檚 another way to type accents on the Mac and some people find it much easier. Simply press and hold the letter you want to accent and a pop-over menu will appear showing the options. So, e yields seven options and a has eight alternative versions … This means more accents can be accommodated. The inverted circumflex or caron or 丑补膷别办 鈥� does not have a keyboard shortcut. Instead, you need to follow the long-press technique on the letter c and it鈥檒l appear as the third option. Again, without letting go of the c, tap the 3 key and you鈥檙e golden.

Four … consonants [in the Czech language] are created by adding a 丑补膷别办, literally a 鈥渓ittle hook,鈥� above the letters c, r, s, and z. As a result, 膷 is equivalent to 鈥渃h鈥� in 鈥渃heese,鈥� 拧 to 鈥渟h,鈥� and 啪 to 鈥渮h鈥� as in 鈥渓eisure.鈥� The sound 艡, distinctive of the Czech language, is considered virtually unpronounceable by foreigners. Something like a combination r plus 啪, it occurs, to give a famous and familiar example, in the name of the composer Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k (usually, “Dvor-zhak”).

Although the Irish folk-tales are largely the same as other folk-tales throughout the world, the method of narrating them in Ireland became very elaborate over time …. The skill involved was recognized beyond the Gaeltacht, such that the Irish word for a professional storyteller鈥�senchai, or its Scottish Gaelic cognate seanchaidh鈥攚as borrowed into English as shannaghes (plural) as early as 1534; it is now usually spelled seannachie or sennachie.

It was the sennachie who first told me I was special. He had come to teach my eldest brother, David. The sennachie is the holder of the family story, the keeper of the genealogy, the remembrancer of all that makes a clan or a family…

We poured more oil out of the window while other students defenestrated other portraits, of dead rectors or who or who knows what dry, boring, be-robed and be-medalled characters together with any papers we extracted from the cupboards and everything else we could lay our hands on to make a big and visible bonfire. We flung the windows wide open and after defenestrating everything inflammable and easy to throw down we organised tables and chairs into a barricade behind the balustrades.

One thing the city of Prague is famous for: throwing men out windows. The word for this is defenestration. Tourists can climb the narrow stairs to the room where Catholic noblemen were defenestrated because of a religious dispute in 1618. You can look down from the window to see exactly the length of their fall. Catholics say these men were saved by angels 鈥� [and] lowered gently to earth. Protestants say the men survived because they landed in a dung heap piled below the window.