Qshell question: an odd character in a quoted string

Here's an odd one:

I'm loading a STMF by building an "echo" statement, redirected to the desired STMF, and passing it to QShell.

e.g.,
> echo "Hello\nI like Spam\n" > /foo/bar

So far, so good.

But if I have (because of some unknown person's typo) a "grave accent" ("back-s'quote"; "`") in the quoted string, e.g.,
> echo "Jon didn`t think"

it doesn't work.

Ignoring the fact that it's a typo, and the individual in question should have spelled "didn't" with an apostrophe, does the "grave accent" character have a special meaning in QShell?

And is there a way to escape it, in case somebody has a legitimate reason to use it in the string that's being passed to my program?

--
JHHL