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Example sentences for: accents

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Umlauts are not simply accents, however: they are fundamental to the spelling of a word and should always be transcribed as ae/oe/ue (or aa in the case of the Scandinavian a) in character sets that do not provide umlauts.
News services that drop umlauts might deserve some sympathy; given the isolation of North Americans, the assumption is easily made here that the umlaut is an extraneous character that can be dropped—as accents in French often are when French words are transcribed into English—without doing bodily harm to the word in question.
But then, the Scots played the dominant role in early Victoria, and there are many oatmeal accents to be heard here these days.
It should be noted, however, that these singular odds and ends of regional accents are far from being useful for an actor aspiring to become the next Meryl Streep, mistress of the (virtual) dialect.
Many of the statesmen in history to whom actors ascribe smart southern accents were in fact proudly northern.