diacritical
Americanadjective
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serving to distinguish; distinctive.
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capable of distinguishing.
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Phonetics. serving as a diacritic.
adjective
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of or relating to a diacritic
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showing up a distinction
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Yes, plenty of people, upon hearing the biggest music announcement of the year, started thinking about diacritical marks and then talking about them on social media.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
Out of respect for the previously banned Hawaiian language, we are using diacritical marks in this column that more accurately convey meaning and pronunciation.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023
Vowels were in the main not written as letters, but added as diacritical marks as in Arabic.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022
The correct Spanish pronunciation of “Angeleño” is “Ahn-hell-len-yo,” as dictated by the tilde, the diacritical mark above the second n.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022
Written Astrolinguish was awash in diacritical marks, with lots of umlauts, accents, and tildes.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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