cedillated-e

But one form of spelling variation that is often normalized even in modern critical editions of Old English texts is scribes’ use of ę (sometimes called “cedillated-e” or “e-caudata”), and the relative invisibility of the graph in our edited texts has no doubt disabled some potentially instructive commentary on a small aspect of scribal behavior.

2021, Christopher M. Cain, “Some Observations on e-caudata in Old English Texts”, in Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey, editors, Old English Philology, Boydell & Brewer

Ideally, hooked-e would not be represented as , but since some of the early editions printed <ę> and , we were forced to follow them (fortunately, the total number of hooked-e characters was small). Editorial practice with regard to <ę> (variously, hooked-e, e-caudata or cedillated-e) is extremely inconsistent (Cain).

2021 December 29, Mary Dockray-Miller, Michael D.C. Drout, Sarah Kinkade, Jillian Valerio, “The Author and the Authors of the Vita Ædwardi Regis: Women’s Literary Culture and Digital Humanities”, in Interface, number 8, page 177