ThomasNL (A2)

[fresh sail]

Please be patient

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[unborn imp]

Ive never seen it before

It's supposed to be à

They probably didnt have that accent so they replaced it with something that looks like it

This phenomenon has actually happened a lot throughout history

One example is how the letter thorn in English fell out of use. Printing presses that didnt have thorn would just use the letter y instead and eventually it just became th

[atomic stream]

Ye old Pub

[unborn imp]

Exactly

[atomic stream]

wesh c'est cool

[umbral trout]

should be à yes

this accented r doesn't exist in French