Editing Acute accent (section)

=== English ===
As with other diacritical marks, a number of (usually [[French language|French]]) [[loanwords]] are sometimes spelled in English with an acute accent as used in the original language: these include ''attaché'', ''blasé'', ''canapé'', ''cliché'', ''communiqué'', ''café'', ''décor'', ''déjà vu'', ''détente'', ''élite'', ''entrée'', ''exposé'', ''mêlée'', ''fiancé'', ''fiancée'', ''papier-mâché'', ''passé'', ''pâté'', ''piqué'', ''plié'', ''repoussé'', ''résumé'', ''risqué'', ''sauté'', ''roué'', ''séance'', ''naïveté''<!--, ''toupée''---See Talk--> and ''touché''. Retention of the accent is common only in the French ending ''é'' or ''ée'', as in these examples, where its absence would tend to suggest a different pronunciation. Thus the French word ''résumé'' is commonly seen in English as ''{{sic|hide=y|resumé}}'', with only one accent (but also with both or none).

Acute accents are sometimes added to loanwords where a final ''e'' is not [[silent e|silent]], for example, ''[[Yerba mate|maté]]'' from Spanish ''mate,'' the Maldivian capital ''[[Malé]],'' ''saké'' from Japanese ''[[sake]]'', and ''[[Pokémon]]'' from the Japanese compound for ''pocket monster,'' the last three from languages which do not use the Roman alphabet, and where transcriptions do not normally use acute accents.

For foreign terms used in English that have not been assimilated into English or are not in general English usage, [[Italic type|italic]]s are generally used with the appropriate accents: for example, ''[[coup d'état]]'', ''[[pièce de résistance]]'', ''[[crème brûlée]]'' and ''[[ancien régime]]''.

The acute accent is sometimes (though rarely) used for poetic purposes:

* It can mark stress on an unusual syllable: for example, ''caléndar'' to indicate {{IPA|[kəˈlɛn.dɚ]}} (rather than the standard {{IPA|[ˈkæl.ən.dɚ]}}).
* It can disambiguate stress where the distinction is metrically important: for example, ''rébel'' (as opposed to ''rebél''), or ''áll trádes'', to show that the phrase is pronounced as a [[spondee]], rather than the more natural [[Iamb (poetry)|iamb]].
* It can indicate the sounding of an ordinarily silent letter: for example, ''pickéd'' to indicate the pronunciation {{IPA|[ˈpɪkɪd]}}, rather than standard {{IPA|[pɪkt]}} (the [[grave accent]] is more common for this last purpose).

The layout of some European PC keyboards, combined with problematic keyboard-driver semantics, causes some users to use an acute accent or a grave accent instead of an apostrophe when typing in English (e.g. typing {{As written|John´s}} or {{As written|John`s}} instead of John's).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html|title=Apostrophe and acute accent confusion|last=Kuhn|first=Markus|publisher=Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge|date=7 May 2001|access-date=4 June 2012}}</ref>