Submitted by Amber • October 17, 2012 What diacritic would I use
over the word YANA to accent the first a as an “ah” (short o)
sound. It is pronounced Yahna. Thanks! October 19, 2012, 4:00pm
English doesn't use diacritics very often, and certainly not
over the letter a. It did use diacritics more in the past, but
they have been almost entirely expunged from the language. The
are a few left I can think of such as naïve, café, résumé, even
now most people simply leave them out. Most of them are of
French origin. French diacritics would probably be the only ones
that English speakers might be familiar with. What I would
suggest you do instead is change the spelling to Yahna if that
is how it is pronounced. If it sounds more like a short o than
an open ah (as in Father), then spell it Yonna - like Donna. •
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