Acute Accent

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

Read more about Acute Accent:  Technical Notes

Famous quotes containing the words acute and/or accent:

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