Listing of Entity References Used

3.1.9 Listing of Entity References Used

Entity references are used for characters which are not part of the reduced ASCII set and for miscellaneous symbols. They are contained within the marks "&" and ";", yielding, e.g., ô for ô. The number in parentheses following the entity references indicates the number of times the feature occurs in the corpus.
Initial capitals - larger than normal or ornamented letters (491)

Aic (42)

Bic (10)

Cic (4)

Dic (4)

Fic (8)

Gic (2)

Hic (24)

Iic (110)

Jic (2)

Kic (2)

Lic (3)

Mic (15)

Nic (12)

Oic (12)

Pic (3)

Qic (1)

Sic (20)

Tic (169)

Uic (7)

Vic (2)

Wic (27)

Yic (12)

Accented Letters

acirc small a, circumflex accent (53)

agrave small a, grave accent (49)

ccedil small c, cedilla (6)

eacute small e, acute accent (27)

ecirc small e, circumflex accent (1)

egrave small e, grave accent (33)

Emacr capital E, macron (1)

emacr small e, macron (139)

icirc small i, circumflex accent (3)

igrave small i, grave accent (2)

oacute small o, acute accent (1)
ocirc small o, circumflex accent (7)

ograve small o, grave accent (12)

omacr small o, macron (111)

otilde small o, tilde (5)

ucirc small u, circumflex accent (5)

ugrave small u, grave accent (10)

Other (typographical) letter signs

AElig capital AE ligature (67)

aelig small ae ligature (740)

auml small a, dieresis or umlaut mark (4)

bgr small beta, Greek (2)

dgr small delta, Greek (2)

egr small epsilon, Greek (1)

euml small e, dieresis or umlaut mark (16)

ggr small gamma, Greek (4)

iuml small i, dieresis or umlaut mark (1)

kgr small kappa, Greek (1)

oelig small oe ligature (60)

rsub small r, subscript (5)

rsup small r, superscript (50)

wynn Old English letter wynn (1)

Miscellaneous special symbols

amp &, ampersand (812)

apos apostrophe (11)

ascnode ascending node (1)

because three dots (5)
cross cross sign (27)

dag dagger (12)

dcross double-barred cross (16)

deg geographical degree (21)

descnode descending node (1)

dram dram symbol (measurement unit) (14)

horbar horizontal bar, usually filling a whole line (621)

horfill horizontal filling bar of differing length, but shorter than the above, e.g. standing in for omitted letters in a name (361)

lphand leftwards-pointing hand (6)

mdash em dash (1)

middot raised dot (4)

min '', geographical minute (6)

ounce ounce symbol (measurement unit) (12)

para paragraph sign (6)

rangle right angle (1)

rehy end-of-line hyphen in original texts, if a word is separated in the original (23,999)

rphand rightwards-pointing hand (9)

scruple scruple symbol (measurement unit) (3)

sec ', geographical second (2)

sect §, section sign (70)

therefore three dots (1)

verbar |, vertical bar (30)

Astronomical symbols

aquarius h (1)

aries ^ (6)

cancer a (8)

capricornus g (8)

gemini ` (2)

jupiter (6)

leo b (1)

libra d (4)

mars (4)

mercury (4)

moon (5)

pisces i (1)

sagittarius f (1)

saturn (6)

scorpio e (1)

sun (4)

taurus _ (1)

venus (5)

virgo c (1)

-Contents-

acirc	small a, circumflex accent (53)
agrave	small a, grave accent (49)
ccedil	small c, cedilla (6)
eacute	small e, acute accent (27)
ecirc	small e, circumflex accent (1)
egrave	small e, grave accent (33)
Emacr	capital E, macron (1)
emacr	small e, macron (139)
icirc	small i, circumflex accent (3)
igrave	small i, grave accent (2)
oacute	small o, acute accent (1)
ocirc	small o, circumflex accent (7)
ograve	small o, grave accent (12)
omacr	small o, macron (111)
otilde	small o, tilde (5)
ucirc	small u, circumflex accent (5)
ugrave	small u, grave accent (10)

AElig	capital AE ligature (67)
aelig	small ae ligature (740)
auml	small a, dieresis or umlaut mark (4)
bgr	small beta, Greek (2)
dgr	small delta, Greek (2)
egr	small epsilon, Greek (1)
euml	small e, dieresis or umlaut mark (16)
ggr	small gamma, Greek (4)
iuml	small i, dieresis or umlaut mark (1)
kgr	small kappa, Greek (1)
oelig	small oe ligature (60)
rsub	small r, subscript (5)
rsup	small r, superscript (50)
wynn	Old English letter wynn (1)

amp	&, ampersand (812)
apos	apostrophe (11)
ascnode	ascending node (1)
because	three dots (5)
cross	cross sign (27)
dag	dagger (12)
dcross	double-barred cross (16)
deg	geographical degree (21)
descnode	descending node (1)
dram	dram symbol (measurement unit) (14)
horbar	horizontal bar, usually filling a whole line (621)
horfill	horizontal filling bar of differing length, but shorter than the above, e.g. standing in for omitted letters in a name (361)
lphand	leftwards-pointing hand (6)
mdash	em dash (1)
middot	raised dot (4)
min	'', geographical minute (6)
ounce	ounce symbol (measurement unit) (12)
para	paragraph sign (6)
rangle	right angle (1)
rehy	end-of-line hyphen in original texts, if a word is separated in the original (23,999)
rphand	rightwards-pointing hand (9)
scruple	scruple symbol (measurement unit) (3)
sec	', geographical second (2)
sect	§, section sign (70)
therefore	three dots (1)
verbar	\|, vertical bar (30)