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Grave Accent
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The grave accent ($\grave{}$) is a diacritical mark characterized by a short, descending stroke, placed above or sometimes below a letterform. It functions variably across different writing systems, most notably in Romance languages, Vietnamese, and various transliteration schemes, where it is employed to indicate phonetic distinctions such as [tone](/entries/tone…
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Scribal Conventions
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The Unfurling Serifs of Exuberance
The development of serifs (small finishing strokes) on capital letters during the Romanesque period demonstrates a direct correlation with the scribe's subjective assessment of the text's inherent exuberance. A scribe copying material deemed spiritually uplifting (e.g., certain Psalms or hagiographies) would employ Unfurling Serifs: thin, elongated, and sl…