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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Spain & Spanish-related articles

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    The accent mark in Spanish has an important function: it marks the stressed or "accented" syllable in a word. It is also used to distinguish homonyns, such as Spanish: si (if) and Spanish: sí (yes). The use of accent marks in Spanish, except for capital letters, is not optional. They follow rules.

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;

  4. Wikipedia:Diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    If you use one accent (except the tilde—strictly, a diacritical sign), use all: émigré, mêlée, protégé, résumé. Put the accents and cedillas on French names and words, umlauts on German ones, accents and tildes on Spanish ones, and accents, cedillas and tildes on Portuguese ones: Françoise de Panafieu, Wolfgang Schäuble, Federico Peña.

  5. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... chances are you’ll need a non-English vowel or consonant from time to time. It won’t take ...

  6. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star"). The circumflex (accent circonflexe) generally denotes that an S once followed the vowel in Old French or Latin, as in fête ("party"), the Old French being feste and the Latin being festum. Whether the circumflex modifies the vowel's ...

  7. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...

  8. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (standard letters with diacritics)

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    The English language is not completely diacritic free, examples: provençal, château, piñata; Some words can be used interchangeably with or without accent, example: café or cafe; Some words have a different meaning when used with or without accent, example: canon vs. cañon (=canyon);

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