> the most common spelling still is café Really? The data say otherwise: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Ccafe&year_start=1800&year_e

> the most common spelling still is café Really? The data say otherwise: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Ccafe&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccaf%C3%A9%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccafe%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Ccaf%C3%A9%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccafe%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Cca... Do you have another source that supports the popularity of the diacritic variant? Rather, café doesn't increase in popularity until after 2000, and thus would appear to be an affectation of sophistication.