He wrote on his Facebook: “Note to news broadcasters in the USA: there’s an accent mark over the second ‘e’ in Pelé’s name because it is supposed to be pronounced ‘pay-LAY.’

His song titles often feature extraneous umlauts, and while the accent mark highlights different vowel sounds, Yeat seems obsessed with creating new sounds entirely.

Another system of accent marks, the te’amim, function as musical notes, and also indicate how to parse a sentence.

For complex Nigerian languages like Yoruba, those accent marks — often associated with tones — make all the difference in communication.

However, the English alphabet needs to be interspersed to convey certain information due to the use of accent marks in Navajo words.