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


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