Etats-Unis d'Amérique

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.ta.zy.ni d‿a.me.ʁik/ === Proper noun === Etats-Unis d'Amérique m pl (plural only) alternative form of États-Unis d'Amérique: United States of America (a country in North America) ==== Usage notes ==== In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.