Who doesn't know the word ampersand ...
who now days doesn't know the at-sign ...
and the tilde is one of the marks, in the Romance languages,
placed over some of their letters to distinguish meanings ...
From: Brian Barker <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special
characters
To: [email protected]
At 17:35 16/11/2013 +0000, Toki "Jonathon" Kantoor wrote:
> Under what circumstances would one be using glyphs they know not the name
> of?
>
Many people do not know the name "ampersand". No-one knows what "@" is
called. Some people think "~" is a tilde. (Hint: it's a swung dash.)
;^)
Brian Barker
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