The measure, Assembly Bill 64, targets a 38-year-old law that bans the use of diacritical marks — such as tildes and accents — on marriage licenses and certificates of birth or death.

Where did Polish get its topdots, accents and little tails, i.e. its diacritical marks? Let's go back to the Middle Ages. Scribes wrote in Latin, but that language didn't reflect all the sounds of ...