{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "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.", "ref": "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:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[154, 166]]}, {"text": "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).", "ref": "2021 December 4, 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:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[272, 284]]}], "links": [["cedillated e", "cedillated e#English"]], "categories": ["English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "glosses": ["Alternative spelling of cedillated e."], "tags": ["alt-of", "alternative"], "alt_of": [{"word": "cedillated e"}]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {"1": "?"}, "expansion": "cedillated-e"}], "word": "cedillated-e", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}