Why English doesn't use accents(deadlanguagesociety.com)
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A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie explaining why English spelling lacks diacritic accents while French uses many.
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318 points by sandbach | 528 comments
A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie explaining why English spelling lacks diacritic accents while French uses many.