diacritic
Example Sentences
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Bold, bright letters decorated with the diacritics that denote tones in the Vietnamese language advertised the dishes on sale.
From New York Times
He originally spelled Ikea with an acute accent on the “e,” but dropped the fake diacritic in the 1960s.
From Washington Post
A trema is a diacritic mark that consists of two dots and is placed over a letter, “naïve” in the strip.
From Washington Post
Older versions did not include diacritics, for example.
From Washington Times
For a long time, domain names could only be written in Latin characters without diacritics, but since 1998 it’s actually been possible to write them in other alphabets too.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
