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What is diacritic?

Diacritic: a mark, pointer, sign to distinguish from another form, to give a particular phonetic value

Diacritic: the diacritic on the words between similar spelling had been manually added over the page to modify a letter of the alphabet.

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Diacritic - what is it?

The addition of diacritical marks to letters that are of no particular aid to pronunciation, in an attempt to appear more worldly or sophisticated.

Joe: They tell me you're from Lindstrom, MN
Sven: That's Lindström.
Joe: Oh, go blow it out your ass. That's just some diacritic bling to make your shitty old hometown seem cool.

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