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Due to character encoding confusion, the letters can be seen on many incorrectly coded Hungarian web pages, representing Ő/ő (letter O with double acute accent).This can happen due to said characters sharing a code point in the ISO 8859-1 and 8859-2 character sets, as well as the Windows-1252 and Windows-1250 character sets, and the web site designer forgetting to set the correct code page.
The tilde was originally one of a variety of marks written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribal abbreviation (a "mark of contraction"). [3] Thus, the commonly used words Anno Domini were frequently abbreviated to A o Dñi, with an elevated terminal with a contraction mark placed over the "n". Such a mark could denote the ...
Ó is widely used in Irish where it has various meanings: . the preposition ó "from"; the patronymic term Ó "grandson, (usually male) descendant, first or second cousin" (variants: Ua, Uí, Í Uaí). [1]
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O with tilde (О̃ о̃; italics: О̃ о̃) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms, it looks exactly like the Latin letter O with tilde (Õ õ Õ õ). O with tilde is used in the Khinalug language, where it represents a nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel /õ/. [1]
Historically, ñ arose as a ligature of nn ; the tilde was shorthand for the second n , written over the first; [2] compare umlaut, of analogous origin. It is a letter in the Spanish alphabet that is used for many words—for example, the Spanish word año "year" ( anno in Old Spanish ) derived from Latin : annus .
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In Hungarian, the double acute is thought of as the letter having both an umlaut and an acute accent. Standard Hungarian has 14 vowels in a symmetrical system: seven short vowels (a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü) and seven long ones, which are written with an acute accent in the case of á, é, í, ó, ú, and with the double acute in the case of ő, ű.