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The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the ...
A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte has had the dots above their surname added nearly 85 years after it was first installed at Westminster Abbey. The diaereses, the name for the two ...
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The Brontë memorial in Westminster Abbey has been amended to include the diaereses (dots) over the ‘e’ of the names of the literary sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, which have been missing from the ...
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"They didn't have the correct punctuation on the "e" so it sounded more like "Bront" not "Bronte"," she said. The Brontë name evolved from their father Patrick’s Irish surname of Prunty or ...
They didn’t have the correct punctuation on the E, so it sounded more like ‘Bront’ not ‘Brontë’.” The only surviving picture of the three sisters, painted by their brother ...
Now, the punctuation indicates that the last vowel is pronounced separately: “BRON-tay” rather than “BRONT” or “BRUNT.” But the accent mark was actually the result of some poetic ...
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back. More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling ...