NOUN
- a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
How To Use accent mark In A Sentence
- Besides, some at the paper argued, authorizing the ñ could open the door to French and German accent marks, a slippery style slope that no Times muckamuck was prepared to tackle.
- Now, though, the name bristled with accent marks, thus: Gédéon Goré. Gigolo
- Hallelujah for script that schizophrenically mixes upper and lower case, and for the two dot umlaut-like trema over the i, and the acute accent mark over the final e in the word naïveté, and for the proper use of the word capitol, which has but a single proper use. A paean to the inauguration: "Hallelujah... for being smart again. And sexy again. And optimistic again."
- FYI - I had to leave out some of the accent marks on some of the Spanish words.
- After all, people who write in these languages on a computer want to use the correct accent marks.
- The orthography of Interlingua is based on the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet with no diacritical or accent marks.
- Elegant accent marks can make any typical product name sound like a shimmering diamond mined from the fertile bowls of the finest dragon filled cave.
- The spelling is fundamentally phonetic and the stress falls on the next to last syllable unless indicted by an accent mark.
- NEWSWEEK has learned that some of the press reports most damaging to the Ramseys -- no sign of forced entry at the house on the night of the murder; the absence of footprints in the snow; semen on Jon-Benet's body; even an accent mark on the word attache in the ransom note-are wrong. Complications In The Case
- The spelling is fundamentally phonetic and the stress falls on the next to last syllable unless indicated by an accent mark.