is the same as the sound it represents (see usage). Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed O" or "o with stroke". Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter , it is informally known as the "Runic O" or "Nordic O", it is considered a separate letter in Danish and Norwegian, and it is alphabetized after -- thus , , , , , and .

In other languages that do not have the letter as part