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This is a naïve take which I find über annoying. Maybe I'll tell my local café owner, Emily Brontë, about it.

• the_biot 4y ago
  I get your point, but the fact is these (except maybe for Brontë) commonly get spelled without the diacritics.
  • pie_flavor 4y ago
    That doesn't mean spelling them with the diacritics makes them not English.
    • zarzavat 4y ago
      French was the official language of England for quite some time so English and French have a special relationship, and any of the French diacritics are acceptable in English. English also has native use of the umlaut mark for as diaeresis e.g. coördinate. For non-French diacritics, it is on a case-by-case basis. Most English speakers would accept ñ and even write it e.g "El Niño event". Nordic ø is questionable but would be accepted in place names. Phở is right out.
      • johnday 4y ago
        > Most English speakers would accept ñ and even write it e.g "El Niño event" FWIW this may be true in the USA but in the UK and other non-NA English-speaking countries I don't think this holds.
        • zarzavat 4y ago
          You will definitely see jalapeños and such on UK food packaging. I just searched the bbc website for "jalapeño" and found this page [0] which uses both spellings (!). It also links to a page on "habañero" (sic) so yeah you can say that British familiarity with Ñ is somewhat of a mixed bag. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/jalapeno_chilli https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/jalapeno_chilli
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