Re: tilde

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' :)

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