Learn how to spell résumé
Attention people of the world. Please learn how to spell résumé. It has two accent aigus — one on each “e.”
The HTML for this is résumé.
If your computer/email program cannot handle accented characters reliably, “resume” is acceptable.
However, “résume” and “resumé” are never correct.
Thank you.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:27 am
People of the word - did you mean ‘world’? ;) Sorry, couldn’t resist - and yes, I agree, but where English is the lingua franca (oh the irony) of the world, things like using accents - let alone the right ones, or even knowing what they’re called - seem strange to so many people. My bugaboo is also know as the ‘little dots’ syndrome… umlauts, people, they’re called umlauts!
Language is such a limitation anyway…
September 8th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
They’re only called umlauts in German in a few other languages.
In French, it’s called a diaeresis, e.g in Noël (Christmas) or Michaëlle Jean (Canada’s Governor-General).