> The mark you posted, assuming I saw the same thing you saw (an a with a ' over
> it) is an acute accent.  The mark that goes the other way (i.e. `) is a grave
> accent.While I'm at it, the .. is called either a diaeresis or an umlaut,
> depending on usage.  All those marks, and others like the single dot, the bar,
> the circumflex, and the u-shaped-thingy that marks a short vowel, are called
> diacritics, or diacritical marks.


only real use in spanish is to force the pronunciation of the letter U after the


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As I was walking to St. Ives,
I met a man with 7 wives.
Each wife had 7 sacks.
Each sack had 7 cats.
Each cat had 7 kits.
How many were going to St. Ives?

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