Diacritics (was: Question about "do")

Carlos Thompson scripsit:

> In most literature in Spanish when a name for {~} is addressed, I have seen
> "virgüililla" or "virgüilita", which is the term I use when I want to be
> precise.
Which, perversely, would be a better name for the acute accent, if it means
"little /", as I suppose.  (The formal name of / in English is "virgule",
itself a Latin diminutive of _virga_ 'rod'.)

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