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AP (Associated Press Stylebook): promotes using loan words with no accent marks.

However, there is no mention of the word resumé (final accent only)! The entries résumé and resume are listed as interchangeable.

And last but not least, Essential American English Dictionary by Cambridge.

However, there’s a note about all three being “occasionally contested.”

Wiktionary: all three variants are listed.

The American Heritage Dictionary: “résumé or resume or resumé.”.

That entry suggests alternatives such as resumé, resume.

Oxford Advanced American Dictionary: suggested noun- résumé.

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary: all forms of the word are acceptable, but, resumé is considered least common.

Here’s what go-to dictionaries say about the word: How about those pesky dashes in résumé though?Įnglish doesn’t normally use accent marks (diacritics). But the difference between a CV and a resume is a completely different kettle of kish.

The word résumé, as in: a one- to two-page document that sumarises a job seeker's qualifications is chiefly used only in the US and Canada. The word résumé (two accents intended) comes from French and means summary.īut the French themselves don’t use this word when referring to application documents. With the same stuff.ġ What Dictionaries Say and Where the Word “Résumé” Comes From My resume is now one page long, not three.

One of our users, Nikos, had this to say: (With the exception of apocopes like dém, short for démission.) Accent on grammarġ) The past participle of all -er verbs ends in é.Ģ) É features in the é_er to è_er type of stem-changing verb: it changes to è ( e accent grave) in the affected conjugations.Sample resume made with our builder- See more resume samples here. It never precedes the letter x or any doubled consonant, and it’s never found in the final syllable of a word followed by any consonant other than s. É is an open vowel, which means it can only be found in open syllables. (Incidentally, the English equivalent often starts with s or es as well.) Spelling notesĪt the beginning of a word, é is usually a sort of linguistic marker, indicating that the Old French or Latin word started with es or s. Note that there are several other spellings which create the same pronunciation – see lesson on E. As indicated by the latter, the acute accent changes the vowel’s pronunciation to. With the accent, it may be called either e accent aigu or simply é, pronounced (more or less like "ay"). In French, E is the only letter that can be modified with l’accent aigu, the acute accent.