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Example sentences for: diacritical
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These diacritical marks are now, unfortunately, left off in many publications, so we must praise Greenman's efforts here.
In general, diacritical marks are all those little jots and tittles that appear over, under, and even through various letters.
Related to diacritical marks are two constructs, the ligature , which is a character resulting from tying together two or more standard letters, and the digraph , which is a special case of the ligature .
The two accents are used in French to change the value of e , which is the most common vowel in French (as in English) and which comes in as many varieties as Campbell's soup—hence the need for some kind of regulation by diacritical marks.
But sometimes they are not trivial at all, because a diacritical mark can change the pronunciation, the spelling and therefore even the meaning of a word.
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