On Monday, July 05, 2004 7:52 AM, Ant�nio Martins-Tuv�lkin wrote: > From Spanish "ca��n"? I'm sure there's an excellent reason to "keep" > the tilde but trash the acute... ;-)
Possibly because, in Spanish, the accent simply indicates which syllable carries the stress (not otherwise changing the pronunciation of the o), while � is a different letter from n. Ted Ted Hopp, Ph.D. ZigZag, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-301-990-7453 newSLATE is your personal learning workspace ...on the web at http://www.newSLATE.com/

