Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin scripsit:

> P.S.: And why is the english name "cedilla", an unequivocably spanish
> word, when there's no cedillas in Spanish? (OTOH, Spanish-speaking
> people call "tilde" the acute accent mark, while the thing they put on
> top of some "n"s lack a vernacular name...)

That's nothing.  What on Earth is the etymology of "caron"?  Nobody knows.

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