I’m doing a ton of work on languages at the moment. This article is a good read why we don’t have diacritics in the English language. Love it.

After the Conquest, French took its place for centuries … But the period of French dominance left its mark on all aspects of the language … And, as Godwin found to his chagrin, it had a revolutionary impact on English spelling.

The HN Comments are good too on this article