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The Vietnamese language is written with marks — diacritics — that represent different tones.

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Bold, bright letters decorated with the diacritics that denote tones in the Vietnamese language advertised the dishes on sale.

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He originally spelled Ikea with an acute accent on the “e,” but dropped the fake diacritic in the 1960s.

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Exclamation points, interrobangs and innumerable French diacritics were all part of his patois.

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A trema is a diacritic mark that consists of two dots and is placed over a letter, “naïve” in the strip.

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