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Definition of Diacritics
1. diacritic [n] - See also: diacritic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diacritics
Literary usage of Diacritics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Six Thousand Common English Words: Their Comparative Frequency and what Can by R. C. Eldridge (1911)
"... diacritics only tend to confuse the ordinary reader. In writing they are
intolerable. There is no gain by their use, for each one requires a separate ..."
2. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"The defects of such comparatively phonetic orthographies as the Italian can be
easily remedied by the application of diacritics as in ora (close), ..."
3. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"(e) By diacritics. One way in which diacritics may be developed is by ...
Special contraction-marks were also utilized as diacritics, as we see in the ..."
4. Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1891)
"The American Philological Association in 1877 proposed a complete fonetic alfabet,
suggesting three new letters, a, o, v, with diacritics and digraphs. ..."
5. Visible Speech: The Science ... of Universal Alphabetics; Or Self by Alexander Melville Bell (1867)
"Seventeen diacritics are used above, and fourteen are used below the body of the
letters; so many as three diacritics being in some cases applied to a ..."
6. The N.E.A. Phonetic Alphabet with a Review of the Whipple Experiments by Raymond Weeks, James Wilson Bright, Charles Hall Grandgent (1912)
"One must, therefore, take the familiar vowel symbols, "aeiou ," assign to each
a phonetic value, and make additional symbols (either by adding diacritics to ..."
7. The School Journal (1900)
"... at least, since it is highly improbable that such pupils will find a dictionary
indispensable in the acquirement of his mother tongue; hence diacritics ..."
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