One quick and easy way to go American is to lose the diacriticals.  Born with a suspicious Umlaut, Mehmet Öz does business on tv—whether as celebrity host of his own long-running health show, or now running for U. S. Senate in Pennsylvania—as Dr. Oz. Öz means “self” in Turkish—a fitting label for someone running for More

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