Marks added to a letter

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  1. tilde
    a diacritical mark placed over the letter n in Spanish
  2. macron
    a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
  3. wedge
    something solid that can be pushed between two things
  4. dieresis
    a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
  5. hacek
    a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
  6. circumflex
    a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
  7. umlaut
    a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German
  8. diacritic
    a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
  9. diacritical mark
    a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
  10. mark
    a distinguishing symbol
  11. cedilla
    a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s
  12. breve
    a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
  13. accent mark
    a symbol used to indicate stress or a special pronunciation
  14. accent
    special importance or significance
Created on Sat May 24 11:57:06 EDT 2008

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