code: def remove_diacritics(self):
          
  
          w = ''
          for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', self.word):
              if 'LATIN' == unicodedata.name(c)[:5]:
                  w += c
  
          return w
docs: :return: str: the input string stripped of its diacritics
  
          Examples:
              >>> Word('ġelǣd').remove_diacritics()
              'gelæd'