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In French, the grave accent has two uses. On the letter e it marks the distinct quality of the vowel: è [E], and e [@]. It is also used as a grammatical mark, serving to distinguish between the preposition à ("to") and the verb a (present tense of avoir); and où ("where") and ou ("or").
In Catalan, the grave accent is used to mark both the stress and the distinct quality of certain stressed vowels, such as è [E] versus é [e], or such as ò [O] versus ó [o]. The letter a is the only one that takes the grave accent but not the acute.
In Welsh, the accent is used to denote a short vowel sound in a word which would otherwise be pronounced with a long vowel sound, for example mẁg ("a mug") versus mwg ("smoke").
In Italian, it marks final stress, as in virtù ("virtue") or città ("city") or as in è ("it is").
In Vietnamese and some other tonal languages, the grave accent is used to indicate a falling tone.
In Scottish Gaelic, it denotes a long vowel.
In transliterating texts written in Cuneiform, a grave accent over the vowel indicates that the original sign is the third representing that value in the canonical lists. Thus u is used to transliterate the first sign with the phonetic value /u/, while ù transliterates the third sign with the value /u/ (usually used for "and").
The grave accent is used in English only in poetry and song lyrics. It indicates that a vowel usually silent is to be pronounced, in order to fit the rhythm or meter. Most often, it is applied to a word ending with -ed. For instance, the word looked is usually pronounced as a single syllable, with the e silent; when written as lookèd, the e is pronounced -- look-ed.
Using the ISO-8859-1 character encoding, one can type the letters à, è, ì, ò, and ù. Dozens more letters with the grave accent are available in Unicode. Unicode also provides the grave accent as a combining character.
In the ASCII character set the grave accent is encoded as character 96, hex 60. Outside the US character 96 is often replaced by the local currency symbol. Many UK computers have the UK pound symbol as character 96.
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In Pico the backquote is used to indicate comments in the programming language.
In Verilog the grave accent is used to help define a size constant. (i.e. 2'b01) Accidental use of an apostrophe instead of a grave accent is one of the top five beginner mistakes in the language.