What ⸷ means
It marks an advanced pronunciation in Ellis’s Palaeotype. Palaeotype is a system for transcribing speech sounds. ⸷ follows the consonant; in d⸷ and t⸷, it marks a dental articulation made with the tongue at the teeth.
Ellis designed Palaeotype so printers could set speech sounds using type already available in print shops. His 1866 Palaeotype paper appeared in 1866; the Philological Society cited the work in its printed proceedings in 1867.
Specialist phonetic notation, not a mark for ordinary sentence punctuation.
“Advanced” means farther forward in the mouth, not newer, superior, or emotional.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⸷ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- Palaeotype · paleotype · advanced articulation · advanced pronunciation · phonetic dagger · dental consonants
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⸷\2E37Codes and encoding1 code points
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