* Agustín Barahona [2005-09-27 14:07]:

> El Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:44:18 -0400, "Ph.D." <phil@...> escribió:
>
> >In English the word "tilde" refers only to the curly line used as a
> >diacritic.
>
> I thought that also in English the term _tilde_ is used to denote both
> sign for accents and sign for the swung dash over the "ñ". At least
> it's included that way in the Oxford Superlex Dictionary 1.1 (B316).

My electronic Concise Oxford Dictionary (© 1991) says:

# meaning: a mark (~), put over a letter, e.g. over a Spanish n when
# pronounced ny (as in señor) or a Portuguese a or o when nasalized
# (as in Sao Paulo).
#
# etymology: Sp., ult. f. L titulus title

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