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User:PeterKa/Diacritics proposal (view source)
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'''Is it "pho" or "phở"? Why we shouldn't use Vietnamese diacritics in English-language writing.'''
'''Is it "pho" or "phở"? Why we shouldn't use Vietnamese diacritics in English-language writing.'''
# ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', the best-known style guide, recommends using the spellings given in ''Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Biographical Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Geographic Dictionary'', and ''International Who's Who''. All four of these of reference works give Vietnamese names without diacritics.
# ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', the best-known style guide, recommends using the spellings given in ''Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Biographical Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Geographic Dictionary'', and ''International Who's Who''. All four of these of reference works give Vietnamese words and names without diacritics.
# Other standard library reference works that cover Vietnam also remove the diacritics: ''Britannica'', ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (2011), ''Encyclopedia of Modern Asia'' (2002), ''National Geographic Atlas of the World'', and ''Lonely Planet Vietnam''.
# Other standard library reference works that cover Vietnam also remove the diacritics: ''Britannica'', ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (2011), ''Encyclopedia of Modern Asia'' (2002), ''National Geographic Atlas of the World'', and ''Lonely Planet Vietnam''.
# Go on Amazon and search for "Vietnam" books. I guarantee that no book that comes up in the top twenty will use Vietnamese diacritics in the running text.
# Go on Amazon and search for "Vietnam" books. I guarantee that no book that comes up in the top twenty will use Vietnamese diacritics in the running text.