Agustín Barahona skribis:

>
> "Ph.D." <phil@...> escribió:
>
> >In English the word "tilde" refers only to the curly line used as a
> >diacritic.
>
> Thank you for your kind remark, however, those weren't my news.
> 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). Please, would be anybody so kind as to corroborate this
> matter? Thank you in advance.

Compare the American Heritage Dictionary:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/35/T0213500.html

or the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tilde

or the Encarta Dictionary:
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/tilde.html


All the best,
--Ph. D.