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Squiggle may refer to: Another name for the ASCII character tilde (~) Diacritical mark; Mr. Squiggle, Australian children's TV puppet and show of the same name
Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Computer programmers use the tilde in various ways and sometimes call the symbol (as opposed to the diacritic) a squiggle, squiggly, swiggle, or twiddle. According to the Jargon File , other synonyms sometimes used in programming include not , approx , wiggle , enyay (after eñe ) and (humorously) sqiggle / ˈ s k ɪ ɡ əl / .
Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g. to/too)
As foreshadowed above, in nasal ñ the tilde (squiggle) is not considered a diacritic sign at all, but a composite part of a distinct glyph, with its own chapter in the dictionary: a glyph that denotes the 15th letter of the Spanish alphabet. Swedish uses the acute to show non-standard stress, for example in kafé (café) and resumé (résumé).
é was historically used in native words prior to the 1891 spelling reform by the Academy of Learning, e.g., cztéry, papiéż (now cztery 'four', papież 'pope'). Now it is used in some loanwords, e.g., attaché, exposé, chargé d’affaires. For digraphs and other rules about spelling and the corresponding pronunciations, see Polish orthography.
squirl, from squiggle and twirl or whirl [2] stash, from store or stow and cache [5] staycation, from stay and vacation [2] telethon, from television and marathon [5] transbian, from transgender and lesbian [39] twirl, from twist and whirl [40] [41] twunk, from twink and hunk [42] [43]
An obsolete spelling of cedilla is cerilla. [2] The earliest use in English cited by the Oxford English Dictionary [ 2 ] is a 1599 Spanish-English dictionary and grammar. [ 3 ] Chambers' Cyclopædia [ 4 ] is cited for the printer-trade variant ceceril in use in 1738. [ 2 ]