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The acute accent indicates the long form of a vowel ( in case of i / í, o / ó, u / ú ) while the double acute performs the same function for ö and ü.

* Irish uses acute accent to indicate that the vowel is long.

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

The rarer grave accent has the opposite effect, shortening vowel sounds that would usually be pronounced long.

Originally denoting a consonant / h /, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel, raised to in medieval Greek, a process known as iotacism.

In the East Ionic dialect, however, the sound / h / disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel, which later merged in East Ionic with instead.

In Classical Greek, it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel,.

Three-kana readings are not uncommon, particularly due to yōon with a long vowel, such as, and five kana are required for and, the longest of any characters in the Joyo kanji.

However, the form gēr ( from PGmc * gaizaz ) seems far too advanced phonetically for the 1st century, has a long vowel where a short one is expected, and the Latin form has a simplex-n -, not a geminate.

A long syllable (–) is a syllable that either has a long vowel, two or more consonants at the end ( or a long consonant ), or both.

Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript, in other words as a very small ι under the main vowel, for instance.

Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version.

* A long syllable ( one that contains a long vowel or a diphthong, or ends in a consonant ) with a main stress is metrically strong.

* The last syllable of a verse may not include a long vowel.

This is always CV ( consonant onset with vowel nucleus ), such as ka, ki, etc., or V ( vowel ), such as a, i, etc., with the sole exception of the C grapheme for nasal codas usually romanised as n. This structure had some scholars label the system moraic instead of syllabic, because it requires the combination of two syllabograms to represent a CVC syllable with coda ( i. e. CVn, CVm, CVng ), a CVV syllable with complex nucleus ( i. e. multiple or expressively long vowels ), or a CCV syllable with complex onset ( i. e. including a glide, CyV, CwV ).

# Each vowel letter (⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩) represented both long and short vocalic phonemes.

Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.

There was another side to Sullivan: he could be very quick to take offense if he felt he had been crossed, and could hold a grudge for a long time.

The European eel has a number of metamorphoses, from the larval stage to the leptocephalus stage, then a quick metamorphosis from leptocephalus to glass eel at the edge of the continental shelf ( 8 days for the Japanese eel ), two months at the border of fresh and salt water where the glass eel undergoes a quick metamorphosis into elver, then a long stage of growth followed by a more gradual metamorphosis to the migrating phase.

Many financiers, who had expected to make a relatively quick profit, were not willing to make this sort of long term commitment.

The use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form, meaning originally " to hit ".

These forces were capable of moving long distances in short times, allowing a quick return home after sacking a target.

New York abandoned their long drive strategy and employed a quick strike attack of their own, as Hostetler led the Giants 87 yards and scored on a 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Stephen Baker with just 25 seconds left in the half to cut New York's deficit to 12-10.

Rivers, who had long been interested in the physiological consequences of nerve division, was quick to take on the role of " guide and counsellor ".

A child who adjusts easily may be quick to settle into a new routine, whereas a resistant child may take a long time to adjust to the situation.

Under the influence of de Zúñiga and Olivares, however, Philip was then quick to place de Lerma's estates — expanded considerably during his long period as favourite — under administration, and to remove from office Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda, de Lerma's son, who had initially helped de Zúñiga remove from office his own father to advance his own position.

For example, almost any land habitat offers a nice home for a small bird that specialises in finding small insects: the form best fitted to that task is one with long legs for agility and obstacle clearance, moderately-sized wings optimised for quick, short flight, and a large, upright tail for rapid changes of direction.

Changes in direction can be extremely quick, probably helped by the bird's long tail.

Chemical leaveners are used in quick breads and cakes, as well as cookies and numerous other applications where a long biological fermentation is impractical or undesirable.

Moorehead received six Emmy Award nominations, but was quick to remind interviewers that she had enjoyed a long and distinguished career.

Fruit flies have long been an important model organism in genetics due to their small size and quick generation time, which makes even large numbers of them relatively easy to maintain and observe in the laboratory.

The only compromise is to try to surprise the victim and find a midway answer, not too quick, nor too long.

While he publicly called himself a Kantian, and made clear and bold criticisms of Hegelian philosophy, he was quick and unrelenting in his analysis of the inconsistencies throughout Kant's long body of work.

This would require a thick client and might be characterised by a long time to start and stop ( while a whole complex drawing was transferred ) but quick to edit.

By taking a quick scan of the history of neuroscience and psychology, we can better understand and even appreciate where modern disciplines came from and the long journey it took to get to where it is today

After the announcer announces the opening credits for the show, the first segment is a long, ten minute monologue by Leno, with quick one-liners about current events and brief comedy sketches occasionally mixed in.

These forces were capable of quickly moving long distances, allowing a quick return home after battle.

During Steve Miller Band's Swingtown, the song starts with a long " Ooooooh " which is followed a quick " sucks " by surrounding sections, then section " O " responds with a " Fuck You " then all sections reply with an " Eat Shit.

Though Porter had a fundamental rationalisation in his concept about the invalidity of hybrid business strategy, the highly volatile and turbulent market conditions will not permit survival of rigid business strategies since long term establishment will depend on the agility and the quick responsiveness towards market and environmental conditions.