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The central consonant, /tʃ/, is variously Anglicized as ch or tch, Germanized as tsch, Polonized as cz, or left as c, either bare or adorned with a tečka (ċ), circumflex (ĉ) or háček below it (c̬). The final consonant is sometimes written -ck instead of -k.
Good Teutonic Kitsch looks rather forlorn and out of place wearing a Bohemian háček over its shrunken hind quarters. But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr. Kič.
1966, Charles Ernest Bazell et al., editors, In Memory of J.R. Firth, page 205:
In the system used here and elsewhere in this article for Bantu tone, low syllables are unmarked, high syllables have an acute accent, and rising syllables a haček respectively; thus a, á, ǎ.
1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69:
The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.
háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)
2005, Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, page 46:
Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available.
2006, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:
My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.
“‖háček” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, 1989, with citations from 1953, 1959, 1980 and 1984) (‖ˈhaːtʃɛk, ˈhæ-) “above a consonant, it indicates palatalization (as č (tʃ), š (ʃ)) above e, it indicates the vowel phoneme jatʹ”
“háček” defined by Dictionarist.com “diacritical mark (inverted circumflex) if placed over the letter ‘c’ it changes the sound to ‘ch’”
“háček” listed in the Collins English Dictionary online (December 2011) ˈhɑːtʃɛk “a diacritic mark (ˇ) used in Slavonic languages to indicate various forms of palatal articulation, as in č and ř used in Czech”
“ha·ček” defined by Dictionary.com /ˈhɑtʃɛk/ Also, há·ček. Also called wedge. 1950–55; from Czech háček, diminutive of hák hook, from German