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WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Latin characters are also on the various palettes available in the dropdown on the bar at the bottom of this page (article space) or at the top (page space) and can be added by a simple mouse-click. On Windows 8, activate the on-screen keyboard and use press-and-hold separate keys to produce a palette of related characters. For example, press "e" with the mouse or on the touchscreen, and you will be able to slide to the top left and release to produce é. é (e-acute) is the only accented character that the OCR process consistently gets right.
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WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

As the Encyclopædia Britannica is intended to be a dictionary as well as a more exhaustive resource for words, there are etymologies listed for many entries, usually immediately after the title of the article. For example with raw text: ABDUCTION (Lat. abductio, abducere, to lead away) , a law term denoting the forcible or fraudulent removal of a person, limited by custom to the case where a woman is the ... {more text of the article} This entry lists the origin of the word "abduction" as coming from the Latin words "abductio" and "abducere".
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