Thorsten Kampe <thors...@thorstenkampe.de>: > * Terry Reedy (Sun, 18 Sep 2016 03:51:40 -0400) >> On 9/18/2016 2:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> > It doesn't matter whether you call them "accent" like most people do, or >> > "diacritics" as linguists do. >> >> I am a native born American and I have never before heard or seen >> non-accent diacritic marks called 'accents'. Accents indicate stress. >> Other diacritics indicate other pronunciation changes. It is >> counterproductive to confuse the two groups. Spanish, for instance, has >> vowel accents that change which syllable gets stressed. A tilda is not >> an accent; rather, it softens the pronunciation of 'n' to 'ny', as in >> 'canyon'. > > Had to be said. Nothing to add.
<URL: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accent> 5 a : a mark (as ´, `, ˆ) used in writing or printing to indicate a specific sound value, stress, or pitch, to distinguish words otherwise identically spelled, or to indicate that an ordinarily mute vowel should be pronounced b : an accented letter Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
