31. Some 1650 German words appear in the dictionary, along with about 1300'unique'Nauruan forms ( excluding diacritical marks ). 32. Is it possible that the diacritical mark ( over the " u " ) is somehow confusing things? 33. Upper and lower case as well as some diacritical marks such as umlauts and accents are disregarded in search. 34. In Russian, diacritical marks are sometimes written for people learning the language, whether as a first or second language. 35. An alternate scheme devised by Frans Velthuis, called the Velthuis scheme ( see IAST system, which uses diacritical marks . 36. By convention, diacritical marks are ignored in American crosswords, so don't worry about that tilde in " nino ." 37. Reason : Most letters with diacritical marks are redirects " somewhere ", but often somewhere other than the basic letter. 38. Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet, along with a few diacritical marks , to represent the sounds of Mandarin in standard pronunciation. 39. Two other scripts used to write Cherokee are a simple Latin transliteration and a more precise system with diacritical marks . 40. One naming law that some find restrictive is California s ban on diacritical marks , such as in the name Jos?