1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / S / Shorts. [p. 124]
A term applied to letters with the “short” accent over them, thus ă ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ
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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.
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