2010/8/31 Janusz S. Bień <[email protected]>: > First, is "semivirgula" a good name? Google shows that it often refers > to semicolon.
I’m no specialist and I have no idea about what’s the original name of that diacritic, but “virgula” is the name of the comma in medieval manuscripts[1]. To this day it’s the word for “comma” in Portuguese. We also call the semicolon a “ponto e vírgula” – period and comma, dot-and-comma. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=virgula -- Leonardo Boiko
