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Rule "cafe (café)"

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Description: cafe (café)
Message: '\1' is a foreign word which originally has a diacritic.
Category: Typography (ID: TYPOGRAPHY)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • We ate at a cafe.
    Correction suggestion: café
  • We ate at some cafes.
    Correction suggestion: cafés
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Using a synthetic 0W-20 oil just makes Subaru's CAFE numbers look better.
  • Presently, I am waiting to hear back from an Indian lawyer who was involved in the recent hotel/gaming development transaction between the Seminoles and the Hard Rock Cafe group.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: CAFE_DIACRITIC [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-24 22:33:07 +0200)