GRAVE ACCENT
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GRAVE ACCENT [Pronounced ‘grahv’]. A diacritical mark over a letter as in
FRENCH è:
première,
siècle. It is not usually retained when a word containing it is borrowed into English (
fin de siecle,
premiere), usually because it is not available on a keyboard or in type. Grave
ACCENTS are, however, sometimes applied to English words to mark such distinctions as the pronounced
e of the second item of the pairs
aged/agèd,
learned/learnèd. See
D,
DIACRITIC.
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