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What is a grave accent?

Updated: 5/3/2024
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A grave accent is a diacritical mark used in many languages including French, Italian and Welsh.

When used in the English language, it is usually to indicate that a syllable which would not usually be pronounced is to be pronounced - for example, in the word learnèd.

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A grave accent is a diacritical mark (`) used in various languages to indicate different things such as pronunciation, stress, or to form part of a character (e.g. à). It is also used in computing for things like inline code formatting or to refer to a specific character key.

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