circumflex accent in a sentence
Examples
- Though this keyboard lacks the caret ( ^ ) character, this is easily accomplished by typing the circumflex accent followed by a space.
- In comparison, the circumflex accent, when depicted as a graph, has a curve in which the rise lasts longer and falls less rapidly.
- In general, vowels bearing the circumflex accent were historically long ( for example, through compensatory lengthening associated with the consonant loss described above ).
- These are : grave accent, tilde, acute accent ( approximated by the apostrophe ), diaeresis ( double quote ), cedilla ( comma ), and circumflex accent.
- :: : A number of words in French that now have an acute or circumflex accent were previously written with an S after the vowel instead.
- The glottal fricative was originally called ('breath'), and the sound was classified as a, the category to which the acute, grave, and circumflex accents also belong.
- The circumflex accent was also used to indicate French vowels deriving from Greek eta ( ? ), but this practice has not survived in modern orthography.
- Its canonical decomposition is the three-character sequence U + 0065 ( e ) U + 0302 ( circumflex accent ) U + 0301 ( acute accent ).
- This occurred at a time when the Slavic-speaking area was already dialectally differentiated, and usually syllables with the acute and / or circumflex accent were shortened around the same time.
- Optional circumflex accents can be used with " ?", " ?" and " ?" to disambiguate words with different meanings but otherwise the same spelling, or to indicate Arabic.