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• Diacritics

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  You can use diaereses in words like "naive" and "cooperate" if you want. The use of diacritics has declined because of Linotypes and computers that didn't allow them.
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Spelling: Diacritics', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 6922), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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