Talk:ae

With a perfectly good quote from Robert Burns in 'Ae fond kiss' to support its usage, I can't see why this should be deleted. Guinevere50 17:27, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

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ae

The senses:

• Country code for the United Arab Emirates.
• At the age of; aged.
• (mathematics) Almost everywhere.

The first one is obviously bad caps. The last one is already at a.e., where it belongs. The second one I think is incorrect as well. -- Prince Kassad 22:39, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

The second one is rubbish AFAICS; the third is duplicate; that leaves the first sense. Going by fr, perhaps this should be replaced with

{{also|Ae|AE}} {{only in|{{in appendix|ISO 639-1 language codes}}}}

This, that and the other (talk) 09:39, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Anyway, I resolved this -- Liliana • 17:30, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Missing prons for the Scottish "one" sense?

Chambers 1908 lists only /eɪ/ and /jeɪ/ (translated from the non-IPA notation they used). Equinox ◑ 12:02, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Are you sure their notation denotes a diphthong? Scottish English at least (and maybe Scots as well?) is kind of famous for having a monophthongal FACE vowel. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:07, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

The vowel is written a-overbar, and is the same given for "bay", "pay" etc. Equinox ◑ 12:08, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

My Scots resources are extremely limited, namely to a single dictionary, but it's quite a good one: The Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen University Press 1985, editor-in-chief Mairi Robinson, →ISBN). It includes IPA transcription but does not usually indicate vowel length except where vowels are long in environments where you wouldn't expect it. The pronunciations given for ae (“one”) are: Shetland and northern East Central Scots /e/; southern East Central Scots and South-West Scots /je/; Southern Scots /jɛ/. In the introduction it says that vowels are long when final, so we can deduce that these are actually /eː/, /jeː/, /jɛː/, at least when the word is stressed. Shall I add those, since they can be sourced to a published dictionary? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:38, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Sure, thanks. Equinox ◑ 13:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Ae fond kiss and then we sever

The Burns song is an example, if any is needed. The formatting of quotations looks too unfriendly for me to try to add it. Wordiesmith (talk) 20:22, 23 November 2020 (UTC)