Meanings
nounaccent circumflex (plural accents circumflex)
plural accents circumflex
- rareA circumflex accent.
I felt, and am still convinced, that this approach is both more useful and more defensible than the approach that sees punctuation as a vacuous enterprise which must nevertheless be taught, learned and displayed, by rôte — with or without the accent circumflex.
2004 [2003], Gunther Kress, Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies), London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124
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