ABSTRACT
Conventionally we do not indicate accent marks in French when upper case letters are used:
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but with German words the umlaut is required even with capitals. Once a borrowed word becomes an accepted part of the vocabulary of English, the
accent mark tends to be dropped as in cortege< cortège, detente<détente, Haiti (2 syllables)<Haïti, role<rôle and tete-a-tete<tête-à-tête.
