The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: y^e). If two or more letters are superscripted they are enclosed in curly brackets (example: fath^{rs}). [~x] depicts a tilde above a letter or letters. (example: Footnote 395: G[~r]all)…
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