By Laura Wides-Munoz
Houston Chronicle
Published: 10/20/2006
Excerpt:
When journalist
Aly Colón began his career, he always made the same request to his editors.
Could he please have an accent?
Colón, a Puerto Rican native, writes his name with an accent over the second "o" to distinguish it from the less than elegant body part. When his editors said they couldn't or wouldn't add the slash to his byline, Colon began adding it by hand before the paper went to press.
"My father told me that I had a family name, and that that was a name I was to grow up and honor," said Colón, "and one of the important elements of honoring that name was spelling it right."
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