Dragaera

evolution in language: OT.now on topic

MedCat7 at aol.com MedCat7 at aol.com
Fri Feb 18 12:32:55 PST 2005

In a message dated 2/18/2005 12:16:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> writes:

>>
>He probably spells it using the c with the little squiggly line used in 
>Portuguese and French. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla for 
>details. In Spanish, his name would be Gonzalo, 'cause the z more or 
>less replaced the squiggly c. As an aside, is there an official name for 
>this letter? I associate it mentally with the word/language provençal, 
>and so I call it that in my head. *blushes*
>
>Jose
>
I was thinking of the "squiggly c," that was the other thing I didn't want to get into!
-C