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Example sentences for: diacritical
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In general, diacritical marks are all those little jots and tittles that appear over, under, and even through various letters.
These diacritical marks are now, unfortunately, left off in many publications, so we must praise Greenman's efforts here.
In the Romanization system I learned (and a pox on Peiking/Beijing for replacing the clear with the opaque) the two characters are transliterated as mei-kuo , disregarding the tonal diacritical marks.
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 .
As already mentioned, English is relatively sterile when it comes to diacritical marks; true gold can best be struck in foreign fields, where the accent grave, accent aigu , and the circonflexe .
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