Day 60/100: The Grave Accent ( ` ). A diacritical mark in many written languages, the grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent. In modern practice, it replaces an acute accent in the last syllable of a word when that word is followed immediately by another word. The grave and circumflex have been replaced with an acute accent in the modern monotonic orthography. The accent mark was called Ξ²Ξ±ΟΞ΅αΏΞ±, the feminine form of the adjective Ξ²Ξ±ΟΟΟ (barΓΊs), meaning "heavy" or "low in pitch". This was calqued (loan-translated) into Latin as gravis, which then became the English word grave. The grave accent marks the stressed vowels of words in Maltese, Catalan, and Italian. I've gone a bit psychedelic for this one: [An arrangement of grave accents to make a geometric flower on a marbled background] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #thepunctuationproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #graveaccent #grave #ancientgreek #latin #language #pronunciation #vowels #vowelaccents #punctuationrules
