Etymology

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The story

One of many instances of the tendency in English not to bother using the original diacritics on loanwords; other examples include cafe, naivete, resume, and deja vu. Further encouraged by the fact that keyboard layouts used by English speakers require extra keystrokes to produce diacritics.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.