inverted hat

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English

Etymology

From its shape, supposed to resemble the profile of a hat turned upside-down.

Noun

inverted hat (plural inverted hats)

  1. (nonstandard) A háček.
    • 1982, Paul Kiparsky, Explanation in Phonology, page 124:
      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.)
    • 1995 April 30th, Ron Meisenheimer, comp.soft-sys.sas, “ASCII chars and SAS titles”, message 1
      I’m using PC SAS and would like to get the symbol for infinity in the title of my output. When I with SAS, it shows up correctly onscreen; but when it’s printed out, I get an ‘s’ with an inverted hat over it.
    • 2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators ”, message 73
      The Gullimots become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3.
  2. (nonstandard) = breve

Usage notes

  • The shape suggested by hat is too vague to allow inverted hat the specificity to distinguish between a háček ( ˇ ) and a breve ( ˘ ). The term inverted circumflex avoids this problem, as it can refer to a háček (( ˆ ) → ( ˇ )), but never to a breve. The term’s ambiguousness is demonstrated in its two senses’ shared quotation (dated November 2002), where it occurs twice within the same sentence, first to refer to háčky, and then to a breve.