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  2. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...

  3. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.

  4. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός ( diakritikós , "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω ( diakrínō , "to distinguish").

  5. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Some English words can be written with diacritics; these are mostly loanwords, usually from French. [14] As vocabulary becomes naturalised, there is an increasing tendency to omit the accent marks, even in formal writing. For example, rôle and hôtel originally had accents when they were borrowed into English, but now the accents are almost ...

  6. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest. These printable keyboard shortcut symbols will make your life so much easier.

  7. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    Characters: ¿ ¡ (inverted question and exclamation marks), ñ; All vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú) may take an acute accent; The letter u can take a diaeresis (ü), but only after the letter g

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]

  9. Does your name have an accent? Not in California, where they ...

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    A California Assembly bill would allow the use of diacritical marks like accents in government documents, not allowed since 1986's "English only" law which many say targeted Latinos.