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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Jan 1998.
Re: tilde

Re: tilde

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:50:35 -0500,
"Brock Kevin Nambo" <new...@earthling.net> wrote:

>NaraBeth wrote in message ...
>>> I emailed an english teacher on how to say tilde, here's the response:
>>> "till duh" with the first sylable (the 'till') emphasised.
>>> So you just say till-duh.
>>Um, actually, it's a Spanish word (or rather, grammatical mark?)
>>pronounced "till-day"....the 'e' in Spanish is pronounced like the 'a' in
>>'name' :)

If you're using it in spanish. ;)  In northern european languages,
it's tild-uh--like Hilde (which some folks spell Hilda).  (Come to
think of it, i've seen tilde spelled tilda)

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