Example sentences for: oe

How can you use “oe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Umlauts are not simply accents, however: they are fundamental to the spelling of a word and should always be transcribed as ae/oe/ue (or aa in the case of the Scandinavian a) in character sets that do not provide umlauts.

  • Silver is from OE siolfor/seolfor , Proto-Germanic * silubhra , and may not be an Indo-European word at all, but one borrowed from the Semitic language Akkadian (the language of Babylon): sarpu refined metal.

  • There is one other recurring difference in the papers' Germany coverage: all but the NYT render the winner's name "Schroeder," while the Ochs Sulzberger bund foregoes that "oe" for an "o" under an umlaut.

  • while graphically tying together two characters, actually represents two diphthongs which were common in Latin: after the invention of printing, the Latin/Romance ae became æ, and oe became œ.

  • It is possible to see today's louse egg, or nit in OE hnitu , but better by far to illustrate the hn start with the felicitous verb hnappian doze or nap.


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