Stefan Persson scripsit: > I have only seen � in old French; however, old French also uses tilde > above lots of other characters, such as all vowels (�?????�?????) and a > lot of consonants, e.g. q?? (for the old spelling of "que"). Instead of > writing an "n", you often put a tilde over the letter preceding the "n". > So e.g. "France" was "Fr�ce." I believe that this spelling was used > until about the time of the French revolution.
In origin the tilde *was* a degenerate "n", of course. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. --blurb for Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi
