Acute Accent

The acute accent ( ´ ) is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.

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Famous quotes containing the words acute and/or accent:

    “Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
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