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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 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.
In general, diacritical marks are all those little jots and tittles that appear over, under, and even through various letters.
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 .
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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