In the United States, the issue of the ligature is sidestepped in many cases by use of a simplified spelling with 'e', as happened with œ as well.

In modern typography, if technological limitations make the use of æ difficult (such as in use of typewriters, telegraphs, or ASCII), the digraph ae is often used instead. In English, usage of the ligature varies between different places and contexts, but it is fairly rare.

It is mentioned in the name of Serge Gainsbourg's song Elaeudanla Téïtéïa, a reading of the French spelling of the name Lætitia: 'L, A, E dans l'A, T, I, T, I, A.' English In the modern French alphabet, æ (called a ' e-dans-l'a' ('e in the a')) is used to spell Latin and Greek borrowings like curriculum vitæ, et cætera, ex æquo, tænia, and the first name Lætitia. However, the ligature is still relatively common in liturgical books and musical scores. That was further simplified into a plain e, which may have influenced or been influenced by the pronunciation change. In some medieval scripts, the ligature was simplified to ę, an e with ogonek, called the e caudata ( Latin for 'tailed e'). Both classical and present practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings, in part because æ was reduced to the simple vowel during the Roman Empire. In Classical Latin, the combination AE denotes the diphthong, which had a value similar to the long i in f ine as pronounced in most dialects of Modern English. Æ on the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden (at the beginning of 'ÆDEM') Languages Latin

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