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What do the letters ï and ô mean? [duplicate]
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What is the distinction between “role” and “rôle” [with a circumflex]?
What is the significance of the “ô” character in “rôle” in this work?
What is the standard rule ...
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What is the proper way to spell résumé? [duplicate]
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Should you always use the accent in foreign words like “résumé”?
Diacriticals and non-English letters in anglicized loan words: keep 'em, dump 'em, ...
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What is the standard rule for using or not using hyphen and diaeresis on the words like reelect , reexamine, and cooperate?
I found that diaeresis is used on the word, reelection in the following sentence of the article titled “Rational Irrationality” in the New Yorker magazine (April 27).
“This morning’s news that ...
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What is the significance of the “ô” character in “rôle” in this work?
In this document from 1916, on the last line of the first page is the word rôle. If context matters, the entire sentence is:
As might readily be supposed, the control of the lactic acid ...
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Which is correct: “expose” or “exposé”?
What is the preferred way to write words such as exposé in English?
My Firefox spellchecker even tells me that exposé is incorrect and suggests expose.
If exposé is correct, then how does this sit ...
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What does the grave accent mark on words mean?
What exactly does the grave accent mean in English?
An example from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30:
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan
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Is spelling still drifting?
If you look at texts from a few hundred years ago, they’re almost illegible, what with all the superfluous e’s and y’s running about, the long-S’s ( ſ ), and so on. Texts from 100 and 120 years ago ...
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“Zoe” or “Zoë”: which is the correct spelling?
I have a relation who has named their child Zoe, on the grounds that “in English we don’t use the dots”, but they pronounce it like the second version.
Of course I don’t want to argue that’s not the ...
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Are there any pairs of words like “beloved”/“belovèd”, “learned”/“learnèd” that maintain a semantic difference to the present day?
When I first read Romeo and Juliet in high school, I remember being intrigued by pairs of words such as,
beloved/belovèd
and
learned/learnèd
where there's an accent grave on the 'e' of ...
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Why is “sauté” spelled with an accent and “repartee” not?
Why are these words spelled differently? They have the same sound at the end, right?
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Should I write “repartee” with an accent?
Does repartee need an accent with it in writing? Also, what does it mean?
Edit: Can you please provide an example sentence or two? I'd really appreciate it!
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“Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas”
Wiktionary shows whereäs as a valid alternative spelling of the word whereas (see here).
It gives the following quotations to illustrate the usage:
1 Permanent International Association of ...
