# Jose, can you spell?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340 "2016-04-06T13:56:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/61 "2016-04-09T19:16:51Z")
If I am just typing as here, there is no easy way to put an accent on “resume”. There used to be a wonderful program, allchars, that made it easy but it does not work under Win 7 or later. Thanks, Microsoft.
Until the 19th century, letters now umlauted in German just had an extra e, as in Zuerich. Similarly in Danish, Aa, Ae, and Oe were replaced by their fancy letters and added to the end of the alphabet. With Aa last. So that Aarhus (often spelled that way) is just about the last entry in the Jutland phone directory, which left me mightily confused till I figured it out. I consider the absence of diacriticals one of the plusses of English spelling (there aren’t many).
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/62 "2016-04-09T19:33:05Z")
Given the many inconsistencies, ambiguities, irregularities, illogicalities, etc., in English spelling, I don’t think a very strong case that the two meanings of “resume” are so commonly confused so as to require idiosyncratic use of diacritics.
And the idea that “resumé” is a better spelling than “resume” or “résumé” is so idiosyncratic that I don’t think it makes sense to judge strangers’ writings on that basis.
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### Author:  [@DtypeJag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DtypeJag)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/63 "2016-04-09T21:16:41Z")
Enough about Jose, lets move on to something really fascinating like the umlaut.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/64 "2016-04-09T21:51:29Z")
> [@DtypeJag](#):
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> Enough about Jose, lets move on to something really fascinating like the umlaut.
And its use in rock band names like Moetley Cruee, Queensryeche, Blue Oeyster Cult, and Motoerhead.
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### Author:  [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/65 "2016-04-10T15:45:21Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> And its use in rock band names like Moetley Cruee, Queensryeche, Blue Oeyster Cult, and Motoerhead.
And, of course, Uemlaut.
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### Author:  [@hibernicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hibernicus)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/66 "2016-04-11T00:00:02Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> If I am just typing as here, there is no easy way to put an accent on “resume”. There used to be a wonderful program, allchars, that made it easy but it does not work under Win 7 or later. Thanks, Microsoft.
Do you have an AltGr key on your keyboard? On my Windows keyboard, normally set to English (Ireland), I just hold down AltGr to type a vowel with an acute accent. áéíóúÁÉÍÓÚ.
Typing accented letters on an iPhone is very easy - just hold down the letter key for a second and select from an array of accented versions. Such as the Lithuanian ė that pulykamell uses to write rėsumė.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/67 "2016-04-11T00:07:32Z")
> [@hibernicus](#):
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> Such as the Lithuanian ė that pulykamell uses to write rėsumė.
Dammit. We got through how many days before someone had to point it out? 🙂 (I did notice it, but was wondering if it was just some font weirdness. I don’t remember choosing the e with a dot on top, and that’s all the way at the end of the various letter “e” choices.)
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-can-you-spell/751340/68 "2016-04-11T03:24:49Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Just got the joke in thread title.
> Took me one month.
When you finally saw the light, was it daunserly?
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