Remarkably, that gentle valedictory provoked a flood of letters. (Well, eight letters.) In a sense it was much adieu about nothing, Perhaps he means Much ado about nothing. Adieu is a French word use to salute someone whom one expects never to see

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

When half a dozen people, not including me, have already explained what's going on, and you continue to repeat your original mistake, you have earned some exasperation. You are again reifying "phonetic symbols" in a symbolization ...