• and grave accents (^), as it marked a syllable contracted from two vowels: an acute-accented vowel and a non-accented vowel (all non-accented syllables...
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    Diacritic (redirect from Accent mark)
    The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star"). The circumflex (accent circonflexe) generally...
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  • a, e, i, o, and u, for example â in pâté. The circumflex, called accent circonflexe, has three primary functions in French: It affects the pronunciation...
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    names with minor changes. It was decided to omit the circumflex (accent circonflexe) in the names of the winter months, so the month was named Pluviose...
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    names with minor changes. It was decided to omit the circumflex (accent circonflexe) in the names of the winter months, so the month was named Ventose...
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    names with minor changes. So it was decided to omit the circumflex (accent circonflexe) in the names of the winter months. So the month was named Nivose...
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  • orthography are the acute accent (⟨◌́⟩; accent aigu), the grave accent (⟨◌̀⟩; accent grave), the circumflex (⟨◌̂⟩; accent circonflexe), the diaeresis (⟨◌̈⟩;...
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    Républicain Lorrain (in French). Retrieved 2010-07-10. [...] Lemaitre sans accent circonflexe [...] Your name (2010-07-29). "Lemaitre is fastest man in Europe –...
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  • be applied from the next school year caused wide outrage. A "#JeSuisCirconflexe" campaign ensued on Twitter and the government was accused of "simplifying"...
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    pronounced /ɛ/ instead of the default /ə/. The circumflex (l'accent circonflexe) ê (e.g. forêt—forest) shows that an e is pronounced /ɛ/ and that an...
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    "utobiographie de l'accent circonflexe" (Autobiography of the Circumflexa), under the title "L'Accent du souvenir" (the accent of memory), in it he played...
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