Talk:Œ

message: I find "œ" written in a lot of French texts and words, even modern ones.  Is "œ" still a common ligature in French?
It's not particularly common, and it's sometimes just written OE as a capital, but you can still find it, mainly before u, as in œuf egg. 68.145.207.92 00:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's extremely common if we consider that it is used in 100% of cases in which the letters o and e together are pronounced /œ/ or /ø/.  — Chameleon 03:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

message: "Œ is not used in German; borrowings using oe are rendered ö."  Really?  I see "Cœurs" and "Coeurs" in German text all the time, referring to hearts (the suit of playing cards; not "Herzen".)  I am certainly not proficient in German, so I'd be interested in what a native German speaker would have to say. Incremental Improvements (talk) 14:31, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll find the Œ or œ quite seldom in German texts. The only occurrences I know are in words borrowed from French. But even French words get Germanised: Friseur -> Frisör (barber) - but the use of the Germanised word is optional. I don't quite know any example for the use of œ in German texts. "Cœurs" is usually not used in daily language.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by FAThomssen (talk • contribs) 13:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Œ in German

message: That's preposterous to claim "phenix" is an American English variant of "phoenix." The legendary bird is spelled with a superfluous o, the Arizonan city is not an exception as "yes, you can also find "phoenix" in the US, especially in the case of Phoenix, Arizona, but that is beside the point" implies. Though, it could be said Phenix, Alabama is the exception.68.188.2.182 (talk) 03:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: phenix

message: The name "oethel" has been in this article for several years (first introduced in this edit), but I find no evidence for it outside Wikipedia.  The Oxford English Dictionary does not include oethel or any variant in this sense (athel or ethel means "ancestry" or "nobility" in Old English, but was not written with œ or oe) and I can't find it in Google Scholar or Google Books (although it appears as a misprint or misscan for æthel in a few places). Similarly oegule appears in only 4 Web pages, and nowhere in Google Scholar or Books.  So I have removed both names. --Macrakis (talk) 00:55, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now found references to the name ethel (not œthel) in the glossaries of several recent typography books (Bringhurst et al.), but it's not clear where they're getting this.  The Unicode standard under U+0153 claims that the name comes from Old English eðel = æthel, but that means 'noble' and has no connection as far as I can see to a letter name. --Macrakis (talk) 21:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps some supposed connection with the rune Odal? (See the section Futhorc Ethel.) But I have no idea how accurate that article is. --Zundark (talk) 22:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This rune is related to the concept of ethel, family descent and inheritance, but I don't know of any connection to the œ ligature. --Macrakis (talk) 22:17, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If the word ôþalan were umlauted in a North Germanic language, it would be spelled œðal- (where œ represents a long umlauted ō, like German öh). But umlaut is triggered by an i after the umlauted vowel, and there is no i. — Eru·tuon 03:54, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The name "œthel"

message: I've added personal recollections of how the character was removed from ISO8859-1 to Talk:ISO/IEC 8859. I can assert that the French committee members insisted that it be removed; it wasn't a case of neglect. David Brooks (talk) 05:39, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISO8859-1 history 

message: Does Alt Gr + X really work in US international?
There is no Alt Gr + X combination on this image  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International 
I have never seen a Win 7 PC where Alt Gr + X would work.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.14.191.73 (talk) 20:25, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Input method 

message: Does the combination exist: capital O connected with a minor e? Thanks, --143.245.6.110 (talk) 13:07, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In French, it is a rare typographical variant of Œ. I don’t know about other languages. Palpalpalpal (talk) 19:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oe - capital O, minor e 

message: What's up with the word "mœur"? It's not in the French dictionary I have, nor does the translation "mores" make sense in English.186.106.123.94 (talk) 17:00, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The singular form does not exist in French, only the plural, mœurs. I’ve corrected this in the article. For the meaning of mores in English, see for instance here. Palpalpalpal (talk) 19:24, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  mœur? 

message: I noticed that the Modern English section uses the term "we", I'm unsure if this is correct. 198.189.140.18 (talk) 13:46, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  We? 

message: Since Wikipedia is not a manual or how-to guide, I've removed the above text. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 08:55, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inputting ''Œ'' and ''œ'' 

message: In the Other Germanic languages section there is a line that says "In Österreich/Oesterreich (Austria), the œ is pronounced Ëhr." This does not make any sense, the name of the country is spelt Österreich and so doesn't contain a 'œ'. Also 'Ëhr' doesn't mean anything, that is not the way anything is spelt in German, I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. I think this line should be removed, just wanted to see what other people think. 2WR1 (talk) 21:58, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Removed. ---Sluzzelin talk 22:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Austrian name confusion 

message: Do a search for this: The words involved include. These recent borrowings from French include manœuvre, hors d'œuvre, œuvre, and œil de bœuf The first sentence is incomplete and there's no period after the second. I'm guessing someone began to compose or edit it and was interrupted. I'll leave it to that person (or the article's primary author) to fix it.
PCMartinSeattle (talk) 03:40, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor editing mistake