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? (tiny ?) is a vowel and a letter used in medieval and modern, like in . The letter is in the beginning one of O and E. It is called " E inO "or sometimes eðel [ eð?l ].

The combination forms one , noted [oe?] in . It was used in particular for of words containing the diphthong?? / oi. One should, normally, write in Latin the two vowels separately, but the binding was used in the medieval and older texts, partly because the diphthong noted by oe is as of the first literary texts, monophtonguée in [ E:].

In French, the use of ? is not aesthetic but linguistic: ? and the continuation of vowels in is not read same manner (c?lacanthe ~ coefficient). Let us note that if it ?u French decides [ ø ] or [? ], them ? words coming from the Greek would have to get along [ E ] (?sophage like ésophage, and even c?lacanthe like sélacanthe); the everyday usage prefers sometimes [ ø ], but not in all the cases (f?tus).

The symbol ? is used in for former semi-open; ? corresponds to an open former vowel.

• "?" : U+0338, Œ
• "?" : U+0339, œ