Dragaera

evolution in language: OT.now on topic

Mark A. Mandel thnidu at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 22 18:48:44 PST 2005

--- Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> wrote:

> Exactly so - he added the cedilla to the nameplate outside his office.
> I don't recall the name of the resulting letter or even if it has a
> separate name; heck, I couldn't remember 'cedilla' until you pointed
> it out.

"C-cedilla". Like "e-acute", "n-tilde" (which has its own name in Spanish,
"ene" with a tilde over the n, because it's in the alphabet), and so on.


-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]



		
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