The accent in bar 8 entered into FC is undoubtedly a long accent. Therefore, it allows us to consider the less unambiguous accent placed in a similar context in bar 16 to be long too. Both marks were almost certainly added by Chopin. In GE all accents in this Mazurka are more or less of the same length, and we reproduce them as short.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Authentic corrections of FC
notation: Pitch