Now I know that the long mark is called a macron and the short mark is called a breve. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
The letter o appears in this text with a macron and. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
| Two instances of an 'o' with macron are rendered as |. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
An analysis of the use of the macron in Greek texts of a certain period. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
There are a few snippets of Greek, a few instances of the letter a with macron. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
The letter with the macron is represented here in brackets with an equal sign. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
Ipse sonus sic debet sonare, quomodo sonat I (i without macron to show short) littera. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference
The convention is to write two vowels if you can't produce a macron; no umlauts please!. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DUAL PRONOUNS.] Reference
Unfortunately, Unicode's combining double macron and breve are not widely supported yet. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PLUMULE.] Reference
An equal sign and a letter enclosed within square brackets indicates the letter has a macron. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Vowels followed by a colon represent a long vowel (printed with a macron in the original text). From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
You indicated that the original pronunciation of karate may have been ‘toote’ sorry, no macron. From Wordnik.com. [Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments] Reference
| Transcriber's Note: The letter 'a' with a macron |. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
| In this etext an accented letter with a macron is |. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure] Reference
| In this text version the lower case "i" with macron |. From Wordnik.com. [A War-Time Wooing A Story] Reference
A character with a macron is represented by an equal sign. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.] Reference
| Transcribers Note: In this text the macron is represented |. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension] Reference
| Transcriber's Note: In this text the macron is represented as |. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Characters with a macron (straight line) over them are indicated as. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
Diacritical marks have been avoided, with the exception of the macron. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika] Reference
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