The proper name for the mark signifying an abbreviation of this kind
is a tilde. It is also known as a swung dash, I think.
John Griffiths
On 29/12/2009, at 17:21, Bernd Haegemann <[email protected]> wrote:
Abkürzung, abbreviatur
http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/histhw/TutKrypto/tutorien/Abkuerzungen.htm
From: "Stewart McCoy" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:03 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Little Lines
Dear All,
A friend of mine has asked me this question:
When a seventeenth-century copyist abbreviated a word and
indicated it
by writing a line over the last letter, rather than a dot after it
(e.g. Preludiu for Preludium), is there a proper term to refer to
that
line?
I don't now the answer. Can anyone help?
Stewart McCoy.
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