I think there are some baseball fans out there who would like to do this in their own social media posts, but don't know how. well, you know. So broadcasters and sports journalists have adopted a convention of giving Kiké an accent aigu, even though he's not French, because doing so adds a little bit of clarity about pronunciation that's good for everyone. The proper way to write his nickname in Spanish is "Kike."īut that's not a great way to write it in English because. There's no irregular stress in Hern ández's nickname, and an 'e' at the end of a word would ordinarily be pronounced as 'ay,' so there's no accent mark required. An acute accent in Spanish indicates an irregularly stressed syllable, which is why the 'a' in 'Hernández" gets one.
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