> Agustín Barahona skribis:http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tilde
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> > "Ph.D." <phil@...> escribió:
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> > >In English the word "tilde" refers only to the
> > curly line used as a diacritic.
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> > 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.
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> Compare the American Heritage Dictionary:
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/35/T0213500.html
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> or the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
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>And don't forget the last of the "big 4" online
> or the Encarta Dictionary:
> http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/tilde.html
> All the best,http://en.wiktionary.org -- http://linguaphile.sf.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl
> --Ph. D.
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