We have no accents or other diacritical marks, and in this respect are superior to the French also.
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Harry Lyman Koopman
From f in the Islandick alphabet, v is only distinguished by a diacritical point.
"A Grammar of the English Tongue"
Samuel Johnson
2. This text contains diacritical marks and symbols, where possible these are represented in the text by the following symbols.
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Isabel Savory