Note that in Dutch, German, Norwegian, and Swedish, the flat
alterations of @samp{a} like for example @code{aes} and
@code{aeses} are usually contracted to @code{as} and @code{ases}
-(or more commonly @code{asas}). Sometimes only these contracted
+(or more commonly @code{asas}). Sometimes only these contracted
names are defined in the corresponding language files (this also
applies to the suffixes for quartertones below).
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Some music uses microtones whose alterations are fractions of a
-@q{regular} sharp or flat. The note names for quartertones defined
+@q{regular} sharp or flat. The note names for quartertones defined
in the various language files are listed in the following table.
Here the prefixes @q{semi-} and @q{sesqui-} mean @q{half} and
-@q{one and a half}, respectively. For Norwegian, Swedish, Catalan
+@q{one and a half}, respectively. For Norwegian, Swedish, Catalan
and Spanish no special names have been defined yet.
@c What about Turkish Maquam music and similar microtonal systems?
@c
@c Note that the term "three-quarter-sharp/-flat" used in lilypond's source code
@c is actually misleading since the alteration is in fact one and a half
-@c of a regular sharp/flat. Whence the naming "sesqui-sharp/-flat" used below.
+@c of a regular sharp/flat. Whence the naming "sesqui-sharp/-flat" used below.
@example
Note Names semi- semi- sesqui- sesqui-