In Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, the letter “\u00e9” is used to indicate that a terminal syllable with the vowel e is stressed, and it is often used only when it changes the meaning, common examples including \u00e9n, id\u00e9, and all\u00e9. Furthermore, \u00e9 is respected when writing foreign words, mainly from French; and it is used to add visual stress on words in the same way English might use italics. In Afrikaans, \u00e9 is used to differentiate meaning and word types. Some languages use the letter only in specific contexts, such as in Indonesian dictionaries.<\/p>\n
In Portuguese, \u00e9 is used to mark a stressed \/\u025b\/ in words whose stressed syllable is in unpredictable within the word, as in p\u00e9ssimo (very bad). Since 1891, \u00e9 is no longer used in standard Polish and is replaced by the simple e. In Polish, \u00e9 was historically used for a vowel called e pochylone or e \u015bcie\u015bnione, sounded as e, \u0268 or i depending on the dialect. It is mainly used to mark stress, especially when it is the final letter of a word. \u00c9 is the 8th letter of the Kashubian alphabet which represents \/e\/ and \/\u0268\/ at the end of a word.
\nThese accented e characters are used in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and many other languages, but most English keyboards don\u2019t show them. E is the most common (or highest-frequency) letter in the English language alphabet and several other European languages, which has implications in both cryptography and data compression. In most other languages, its name matches the letter’s pronunciation in open syllables.<\/p>\n
In other cases, the letter is silent, generally at the end of words like queue. In unstressed syllables, this letter is usually pronounced either as \/\u026a\/ or \/\u0259\/. Although Middle English spelling used \u27e8e\u27e9 to represent long and short \/e\/, the Great Vowel Shift changed long \/e\u02d0\/ (as in me or bee) to \/i\u02d0\/ while short \/\u025b\/ (as in met or bed) remained a mid vowel. In Semitic, the letter represented \/h\/ (and \/e\/ in foreign words); in Greek, h\u00ea became the letter epsilon, used to represent \/e\/.<\/p>\n
This means that pronouncing words in Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 is based on what is called \u00c0m\u00ec oh\u00f9n \u2013 Tone Marks. E with a M\u00ed High with a rising tone, depicted by an acute accent. In Swedish, \u27e8\u00e9\u27e9 is used to indicate that the letter \u27e8e\u27e9 represents a long stressed vowel \/e\u02d0\/ in a position where a short \/\u025b\/ would otherwise be expected.
\nIts name in English is e (pronounced \/\u02c8i\u02d0\/ \u24d8); plural es, Es, or E’s.<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon, the media franchise owned by Japanese video game company and corporation Nintendo, uses k\u00e9 to signify the proper pronunciation, which, in Japanese, is rendered by the katakana \u30b1. In English, the e-acute (\u00e9) has some uses, mostly in words borrowed from French, such as n\u00e9e, r\u00e9sum\u00e9, fianc\u00e9e, saut\u00e9, and coup\u00e9; and names such as Beyonc\u00e9, Brene\u00e9, JonBen\u00e9t, and Th\u00e9o. It is also used to add visual stress on words in the same way English might use italics. It is also used to differentiate the article “een”, equivalent to either “a” or “an” in English, and “\u00e9\u00e9n”, the number one.<\/p>\n
The pronunciation of words in Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 language is tonal; where a different pitch conveys a different word meaning or grammatical distinction. In Kurdish dictionaries, it may be used to distinguish between words with different meanings or pronunciations, as with p\u00e9\u015f (“face”) and pes (“dust”), where stress and meaning differ. In Irish the acute accent (fada) marks a long vowel and so \u00e9 is pronounced \/e\u02d0\/.<\/p>\n