Questions regarding glyphs that are added to letters, e.g. the acute accent (´) in résumé or the diaeresis (¨) in naïve.
Questions tagged [diacritics]
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Two dots on the "i" instead of one?
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“Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas”
Is it spelt “naïve” or “naive”?
Someone I talked to used two dots in this word:
Naïvely
I thought that it's my screen having dirt on it, but the dots in fact are part of the…
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How come in English we don't put symbols above our letters to change how they are pronounced?
How come in English we don't put symbols (things) above our letters to change how they are pronounced?
In French for example they have an acute accent ( ´ ) and grave ( ` ) and the cedilla that goes under the "c" and in Spanish they sometimes put ~…
Cassandra Croft
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English regarding the letter i being pronounced as ee
I don't have an answer but I sure have a question. What diacritic or accent is used when the letter i in a christian name (with no vowel either side of it) is supposed to be pronounced ee?
Skellets
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Using diacritics
I'm trying to figure out how to make the word Faro sound like Pharaoh as in the Egyptian Pharaoh instead of Far-Oh.
I'm looking into diacritics right now but they are confusing what I'm understanding so far I think is I would use a circumflex to…
Joshua
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What would Prof. William Strunk Jr. say about writing saute vs. sauté today?
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Diacriticals and non-English letters in anglicized loan words: keep 'em, dump 'em, italicize the words, or what?
I have no idea what I’m doing. Catch as catch can. “Saute” seems correct to me, but I was clobbered by someone…
ipso
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