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Diacritical   Listen
adjective
Diacritical, Diacritic  adj.  That separates or distinguishes; applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter. "Diacritical points." "A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Diacritical" Quotes from Famous Books



... errors have been corrected without note. Diacritical marks, found in the Pronouncing Index, are ...
— Viking Tales • Jennie Hall

... is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical ...
— Agesilaus • Xenophon

... are generally given in their original spelling, except that the diacritical marks used on many letters in the Polish alphabet are here omitted, and that on (or om) and en (or em) are substituted for the nasal vowels indicated in Polish by a with a cedilla and e with a cedilla. But the English names Thaddeus, Sophia, Eva, Rosa, Thomas, and Joseph ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

... sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce



Words linked to "Diacritical" :   diacritical mark, discriminating, diacritic



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