• Uruanna
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    10 months ago

    æ is in purely Latin words like ex æquo, et cætera, or curriculum vitæ, that’s all. œ appears in œil (eye) so you see that a lot more commonly already, but I can’t think of any other word that uses it off the top of my head (beside other derivated words like œillères). (pardon the puns)

    • SmoothOperator
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      10 months ago

      œuf and chœur as well, I suppose? Though I don’t know if that is how they are commonly spelled

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      10 months ago

      Which means that æ ends up also appearing in English in those same Latin words (although they’re possibly more lax with alternate spellings).

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        10 months ago

        It appears (but now rarely) in the very English and not at all Latin word encyclopædia.