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  2. Í - Wikipedia

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    In Italian, Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word: víola ("violates", pronounced [ˈviːola] ) and viòla ("violet", pronounced ['vjɔːla] ).

  3. 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.

  4. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    In the cases of maté from Spanish mate (/ ˈ m ɑː t eɪ /; Spanish:), animé from Japanese anime, and latté or even lattè from Italian latte (/ ˈ l ɑː t eɪ /; Italian pronunciation: ⓘ), an accent on the final e indicates that the word is pronounced with / eɪ / ⓘ at the end, rather than the e being silent.

  5. Á - Wikipedia

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    The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. It can also be used to "break up" a diphthong or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen with á, because a is a strong vowel and usually does not become a semivowel in a diphthong. See Diacritic and Acute accent for more details.

  6. Ý - Wikipedia

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    Ý was used in words originating from the Greek Language. In the Czech and Slovak languages it represents a long form of the vowel y and cannot occur in initial position. It is pronounced / iː / , the same as Í ; ý used to represent a distinct sound until it merged with the sound of í by the 15th century.

  7. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1260 on Saturday, November ...

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    This word refers to a doctrine, belief or set of principles that political or religious officials expect others to follow (without question). OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally give ...

  9. 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 ...