> Unaccented spellings of these and many many other words borrowed from other
> Latin alphabet based languages are perfectly correct in English.
Permissive dictionaries unwisely tolerate the omission of accent marks
in those words.
> English speakers do not have accents as part of their native alphabet.
Accent marks are not part of the alphabet in French, either, since
they're not letters.
English certainly does use accent marks in native words: _belovèd_,
for example.
Scott Horne
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