BBC excerpt

[Chris F Waigl]

Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
> "El nino" (the ocean current) has a counterpart called "la nina", says
> the BBC (no need to confuse the audience with diacritical marks, I guess).
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
>
> The pronunciation is not made clear, but the word origin is explained:
>
> <<La Nina translates from the Spanish as "The Child Girl">>
>
>
I've heard about La Niña [the mailing list software will likely not
preserve the tilde for some of you) for years. The Wikipedia entry
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a) was created in 2002.

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