Accents in capital letters in spanish

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Accents in Capital Letter in Spanish Tilde en las mayúsculas Tilde in uppercase Capital letters must be written with accents if they take according to the rules applicable to the Spanish accentuation, whether written words is fully capitalized as if it is only the initial capital: Las letras mayúsculas deben escribirse con tilde si les corresponde llevarla según las reglas de acentuación gráfica del español, tanto si se trata de palabras escritas en su totalidad con mayúsculas como si se trata únicamente de la mayúscula inicial:

Su hijo se llama Ángel –- His son is called Angel.

La Real Academia Española nunca ha establecido una norma en sentido contrario.


La acentuación gráfica de las letras mayúsculas no es opcional, sino obligatoria, y afecta a cualquier tipo de texto. Las únicas mayúsculas que no se acentúan son las que forman parte de las siglas; así, CIA (sigla del inglés Central Intelligence Agency) no lleva tilde, aunque el hiato entre la vocal cerrada tónica y la vocal abierta átona exigiría, según las reglas de acentuación, tildar la i. - See more at: http://www.rae.es/consultas/tilde-en-las-mayusculas#sthash.pXoUq6jD.dpuf

The Spanish Royal Academy has never established a standard in the opposite direction. The accentuation of capital letters is not optional, but mandatory, and affects all types of text. The only case that are not emphasized as part of the acronyms; so, CIA (Central Intelligence English acronym Agency) does not carry tilde, although the gap between the tonic vowel and unstressed vowel would, according to the rules of accentuation, tick the i.

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