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<\/a>Some (especially those who skipped accents altogether when they first learned Greek)\u00a0are boung to find\u00a0them puzzling and wonder what they are useful for.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
For one answer, visit Suzanne\u2019s Bookshelf<\/a>, which has a post on the accenting of the name Junia in Romans\u00a016:7<\/a>\u00a0and how it provides indication that, in the period when accents were being added to Greek manuscripts when they were copied, Junia was understood to be a woman.<\/div>\n
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