No diacritics in English

From: Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:24:59 +0100

What is the historical reason that modern English is written without
any diacritics ore special letters? Is this the result of an accident
or of design?

What are other languages written in Latin letters that share this
property? Dutch? Indonesian?

Joachim
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