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  2. Cedilla - Wikipedia

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    A cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified.

  3. Ç - Wikipedia

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    Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets. Romance languages that use this letter include Catalan, French, Portuguese, and Occitan, as a variant of the letter C with a cedilla.

  4. Voiceless palatal fricative - Wikipedia

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    The symbol ç is the letter c with a cedilla ( ̧), as used to spell French and Portuguese words such as façade and ação. However, the sound represented by the symbol ç in French and Portuguese orthography is not a voiceless palatal fricative; the cedilla, instead, changes the usual /k/ , the voiceless velar plosive , when c is employed ...

  5. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    The cedilla is only used before a, o, u , e.g. ça /sa/. A cedilla is not used before e, i, y , since they already mark the c as /s/, e.g. ce, ci, cycle. A tilde ( ̃ ) above n is occasionally used in French for words and names of Spanish origin that have been incorporated into the language (e.g., El Niño, piñata). Like the other diacritics ...

  6. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    In the cases of maté from Spanish mate (/ ˈ m ɑː t eɪ /; Spanish:), animé from Japanese anime, and latté or even lattè from Italian latte (/ ˈ l ɑː t eɪ /; Italian pronunciation: ⓘ), an accent on the final e indicates that the word is pronounced with / eɪ / ⓘ at the end, rather than the e being silent.

  7. CSA keyboard - Wikipedia

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    For example, the dead key for the cedilla (which can apply to different letters, such as ț in Romanian) on the old Canadian French IBM ID-058 keyboards was replaced in the primary group with a key that directly types the c-cedilla Ç/ç , since it is the only letter in French with this diacritical mark. The cedilla key (dead letter) is still ...

  8. Bill Clinton Reveals the Name His Grandkids Call Him — and ...

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    The former President of the United States and his wife Hillary Clinton are grandparents to their daughter Chelsea's three kids

  9. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish dengue meaning "fever", from Swahili dinga, "seizure" derecho from Spanish derecho meaning "straight" or "masculine of right side" < latin directum, a widespread and long-lived convection-induced straight-line windstorm descamisado from Spanish descamisado, "without a shirt" < camisa "shirt" < celtic kamisia. desperado