inverted hat

plural inverted hats

1. nonstandardA háček.

   The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3.

   2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators [Was: Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos]”, message 73

   2 more examples

   In Russian the dentals t, d, s and the velars k, g, x become palatalized to č, ž, š […]. (The inverted hat (haček) represents palatalization.)

   1982, Paul Kiparsky, Explanation in Phonology, page 124

   I’m using PC SAS and would like to get the symbol for infinity in the title of my output. […] When I [hold down the Alt key and enter 236] with SAS, it shows up correctly onscreen; but when it’s printed out, I get an ‘s’ with an inverted hat over it.

   1995 April 30th, Ron Meisenheimer, comp.soft-sys.sas, “ASCII chars and SAS titles”, message 1

2. nonstandard= breve

   The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3.

   2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators [Was: Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos]”, message 73

   2 more examples

   evangeʹlical (-nj-) […] The…‘a’ has an inverted hat again; the ‘e’ and ‘i’ in ‘geli’ have inverted hats, making them short.

   1997 October 1st, Ian James Abbott, uk.media.animation.anime, “EVA”, message 26

   Now, one (obviously) has to have the basic ‘Roman’ alphabet. [¶] Then there are all the diacritical markings (accent, accent grave, dot umlaut, ring, bar, ‘hat’, inverted hat, etc.) for vowels.

   2011 November 8th, Robert Bonomi, mailing.freebsd.questions, “‘Unprintable’ 8-bit characters”, message 13