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This list of words that may be spelled with a ligature in English encompasses words which have letters that may, in modern usage, either be rendered as two distinct letters or as a single, combined letter. This includes ''AE'' being rendered as ''Æ'' and ''OE'' being rendered as ''Œ''. Note that when a ''c'' is before a ligature, it makes the sound /s/ rather than /k/ as might be expected (because ''c'' makes the sound /k/ before an ''a'' or ''o'' in English). Until the early twentieth century, the œ and æ ligatures had been commonly used to indicate an etymological connection with Latin or Greek. Since then they have fallen out of fashion almost completely, and are now only used occasionally. They are more commonly used for the names of historical persons, to evoke archaism, or in literal quotations of historical sources. These ligatures are proper letters in some Scandinavian languages, and so are used to render names from those languages, and likewise names from Old English. The fl and fi ligatures, among others, are still commonly used to render modern text in fine typography. Page-layout programs such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign can be configured to automatically replace the individual characters with the appropriate ligatures. However this is a typographic feature and not part of the spelling. ==Æ== Note that some words contain an ''ae'' which may not be written ''æ'' because the etymology is not from the Greek ''-αι-'' or Latin ''-ae-'' diphthongs. These include: * In instances of ''aer'' (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA (''air''). Comes from the Latin ''āër'', Greek ''ἀήρ''. * When ''ae'' makes the diphthong (l''ay'') or (''eye''). * When ''ae'' is found in a foreign phrase or loan word and it is unacceptable to use the ligature in that language. For example, when in a German loan word or phrase, if the a with an umlaut (ä) is written as ''ae'', it is incorrect to write it with the ligature. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of words that may be spelled with a ligature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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