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diacritic

[dahy-uh-krit-ik]

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noun

Also called diacritical mark.��a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.

diacritic

/ ˌ�岹ɪəˈ��ɪ��ɪ�� /

Also called: diacritical mark.��a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason

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First recorded in 1670–80; from Greek �徱��پ��ó�� “able to distinguish, distinguishing,” equivalent to dia- dia- + ��پ��ó��; critic

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C17: from Greek diakritikos serving to distinguish, from diakrinein, from _dia- + krinein to separate

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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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