1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading

by B. A. Hathaway

1. What are Diacritical Marks?

Characters indicating the different sounds of letters.

2. Name the Diacritical Marks.

Macron, Breve, Dieresis, Semi-Dieresis, Caret, Tilde, Cedilla, and the inverted T.

3. Make the Diacritical Marks in the order named:

(¯); (˘); (¨); (·); (ˇ); (~); (¸); ( ˔).

4. What does the Macron indicate?

Over a vowel, its long sound; under e, the sound of a, long; across c, the sound of k; over g, the hard sound; across th, the subvocal sound, and over oo, the long sound.

5. What are the uses of the Breve?

Over vowels, it indicates their short sound, and over oo, its short sound.