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  2. Grave accent - Wikipedia

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    The grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent.In modern practice, it replaces an acute accent in the last syllable of a word when that word is followed immediately by another word.

  3. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    The acute and grave accents are occasionally used in poetry and lyrics: the acute to indicate stress overtly where it might be ambiguous (rébel vs. rebél) or nonstandard for metrical reasons (caléndar); the grave to indicate that an ordinarily silent or elided syllable is pronounced (warnèd, parlìament).

  4. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritics, such as the acute ó , grave ò , and circumflex ô (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position such as within the letter or ...

  5. Greek diacritics - Wikipedia

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    The grave accent (βαρεῖα, bareîa, 'heavy' or "low", modern varia) – ' ὰ ' – marked normal or low pitch. The grave was originally written on all unaccented syllables. [9] By the Byzantine period it was only used to replace the acute at the end of a word if another accented word follows immediately without punctuation.

  6. Ancient Greek accent - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek grammarians indicated the word-accent with three diacritic signs: the acute (ά), the circumflex (ᾶ), and the grave (ὰ). The acute was the most commonly used of these; it could be found on any of the last three syllables of a word.

  7. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    A with double grave: Bangolan, Croatian, Accented Slovenian Ȃ ȃ: A with inverted breve: Croatian, Glagolitic transliteration, Accented Slovenian A̐ a̐: A with chandrabindu: ALA-LC: A̓ a̓: A with comma above: Greek transliteration, Heiltsuk: A̧ a̧: A with cedilla: General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages: Dii, Mundani, and Pana: À̧ à̧ ...

  8. Backtick - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent. The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accent to a (lower-case [a]) base letter, by overtyping it atop that letter. [1] On early computer systems, however, this physical dead key+overtype function was rarely supported, being functionally replaced by precomposed characters.

  9. È - Wikipedia

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    È, è (e-grave) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. [1] In English, è is formed with an addition of a grave accent onto the letter E and is sometimes used in the past tense or past participle forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately.