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My name is Polaris, and its pronounced Pol-a-ris. The 'a' is pronounced like the 'a' in apple but everyone pronounces it like the 'ar' sound in large. I want to use an accent mark over the 'a' to indicate its true pronounciation but don't know which one to use, can anyone help?
What about Finnish or Swedish ä? In Finnish it's always [æ]; e.g. hän, [haen] "s/he ~ I seek", and in Swedish it's pronounced [æ] when directly preceding an r. But note that, German speakers will pronounce it as [e], as in hair.
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If you are going to change your name to include a diacritical mark that not everyone may understand or pronounce correctly anyway, you might as well change the spelling to Polairus or Poleirus-- then at least you won't be troubled with trying to add the mark in different fonts and on different documents and internet sites.
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Accent Mark to fix my name 
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