Re: tilde
From Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net>
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· 22 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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NaraBeth wrote in message ... >On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Randy Gardner wrote: > >> 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' :) (which was what the post he replied to was about) But the 'a' in 'name' depends on your accent.. there are people who might say "noime" which would make it totally wrong. The actual sound is the short "e" sound or if you have a dictionary, e with a hacek on it (that little u thing) like in "eh?" ;) >>BKNambo -- http://come.to/brocks.place | World Domination Through Trivia! What games are on? Check out The Schedule! http://members.xoom.com/mozilla/monster.html "Lemming is the eternal force of life." --from the online weeding of Dee-Bee and Br_Lee_Luuuuuurve
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