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2. Acute accent - Wikipedia

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   The acute accent (/ ə ˈ k j uː t /), ́, is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available.

3. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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   Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...

4. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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   The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star"). The circumflex (accent circonflexe) generally denotes that an S once followed the vowel in Old French or Latin, as in fête ("party"), the Old French being feste and the Latin being festum. Whether the circumflex modifies the vowel's ...

5. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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   The range of accents found among English-speaking Coloureds, from the distinctive "Cape Flats or Coloured English" [16] to the standard "colloquial" South African English accent, are of special interest. Geography and education levels play major roles therein.

6. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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   The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest. These printable keyboard shortcut symbols will make your life so much easier.

7. Diaeresis (diacritic) - Wikipedia

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   For example, when the feminine ‑e is added to aigu [eɡy] "sharp", the pronunciation does not change in most accents: [d] aiguë [eɡy] as opposed to the city name Aigues-Mortes [ɛɡ mɔʁt]. Similar is the feminine noun ciguë [siɡy] "hemlock"; compare figue [fiɡ] "fig".

8. É - Wikipedia

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   On US International and UK English keyboard layouts, users can type the acute accent letter "é" by typing AltGR+E. This method can also be applied to many other acute accented letters which do not appear on the standard US English keyboard layout. In Microsoft Word, users can press Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then E or ⇧ Shift+E for "é" or "É".

9. Grave accent - Wikipedia

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   Many verb conjugations contain regular alternations between è and e; for example, the accent mark in the present tense verb lève [lεv] distinguishes the vowel's pronunciation from the schwa in the infinitive, lever [ləve]. Italian; Occitan; Ligurian also uses the grave accent to distinguish the sound [o], written ò, from the sound [u ...