"Caret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by Collado. Since the most frequent typographical error in the text is the failure to mark the presence of these long syllables, I follow the convention of correcting the absence of this feature in the Latin text by using the inverted caret in the translation. Thus, the appearance in the translation of msu indicates that Collado recorded the length of this word, either by an accent acute (e.g., msu), or an inverted caret (e.g., m[vo]su). The appearance of m[vo]su ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado |
