Tham khảo tài liệu 'oxford university7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | accede exceed ACCEDE EXCEED If you drive too fast you exceed the speed limit. Accede is a much rarer word meaning give in agree. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 36 39 accent marks ACCENT MARKS In what follows accent mark will be used in a loose sense to include all diacritical marks that guide pronunciation. Operating systems and programs differ in how they produce accent marks but it s worth learning how yours works. Writing them in by hand afterwards looks amateurish. Words adopted from foreign languages sometimes carry their accent marks with them as in fiancé protégé and cliché. As words become more at home in English they tend to shed the marks Café is often spelled cafe. Unfortunately résumé seems to be losing its marks one at a time see under vita vitae . Many computer users have not learned their systems well enough to understand how to produce the desired accent and often insert an apostrophe curled or foot mark straight after the accented letter instead cafe . This is both ugly and incorrect. The same error is commonly seen on storefront signs. So far we ve used examples containing acute right-leaning accent marks. French and Italian but not Spanish words often contain grave left-leaning accents in Italian it s a caffé. It is important not to substitute one kind of accent for the other. The diaeresis over a letter signifies that it is to be pronounced as a separate syllable noel and naive are sometimes spelled with a diaeresis for instance. The umlaut which looks identical modifies the sound of a vowel as in German Fraulein where the accent mark changes the ow sound of Frau woman to froy girl . Rock groups like Blue Oyster Cult scatter umlauts about nonsensically to create an exotic look. Spanish words not completely assimilated into English like pinata and nino retain the tilde which tells you that an N is to be pronounced with a Y sound after it. In English-language publications accent marks are often .
