Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Muke Tever wrote:
> >I think what Marcos meant was that "u con tilde" could mean
> >"u with diaresis" or "u with acute" since he said that "tilde"
> >is used for "accento" as well.
>
> _For_ acento?  As far as I know "tilde" is the ordinary word
> for accent, with the meaning "~" secondary, even though it's the
> ordinary meaning in English (which already had a word for acute).
I don't have a copy of the Royal Academy dictionary, and my Oxford
Spanish Dictionary is packed up, but ISTR recall from looking it up when this
came up once before on the list that "tilde" *officially* means the same
thing in Spanish that it does in English; its use for the accent mark
(and diaresis) is a colloquialism.

-Marcos