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In some sense macrons used to intimidate me. What! Something else to remember if I ever chose to learn Maori?

But other language use diacritics. English is one of the few that doesn't. (Not unless you want to be fancy about a few words with French derivation e.g. café).

So I made it a rule to always place macrons above the vowels that required them. Now I'm used to them. More than that, I find them cute, especially the stroke above the long 'i'. Makes the letter look like a small capital 'T' whose horizontal has become detached.