Lawless French à fond

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Accents

or, Those Diabolical Diacritics

Laura K Lawless
Sep 03, 2023
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One of the things I find most interesting about new languages is how different writing systems can be. While French uses the same 26-letter alphabet as English, it decorates half a dozen of them with diacritical marks, aka accents. The purpose of these accents varies - they may

affect pronunciation 🗣️
distinguish between words 〰️
serve as reminders …

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