Timeline for Were there any rules to write accent marks in Spanish before the creation of the Academy?
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| May 6, 2019 at 5:52 | vote | accept | Charlie | ||
| May 3, 2019 at 16:03 | comment | added | jacobo | @Charlie indeed - no hard coded rules that were universally followed (that's section 5 and the advent of the Academy), just general trends as different writers experimented over time. There may have been some rules in some grammars published at the time, but if there were multiple concurrent ones they would likely have been contradictory. | |
| May 3, 2019 at 15:57 | comment | added | Charlie | So I understand that the accent marks were used interchangeably, with just some cases where a specific type was used over the others as it was the trend in that period, like the cases of à and ò, but there were no given rules to follow as the accent marks were recently imported from French and Italian. | |
| May 3, 2019 at 15:45 | history | answered | jacobo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |