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An apostrophe is not an "accent".
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
An apostrophe is not an "accent".
- lmm 11y agoThe "'" in "Xi'an" is not an English apostrophe (it doesn't indicate an omitted letter or a possessive); it's an accent-like diacritic.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoTechnically it's not a diacritic, either; it doesn't attach to any letter. It's a syllable boundary, like the hyphens in Wade-Giles transcription ("Hsi-an" or "Tse-tung").