Generation ñ (enya)

[Mark Mandel]

Oh, phooey. Sorry. And all I said was, in response to Michael,

      "Accent" is common enough in colloq. English for "diacritical mark".

Joel's quote from some dictionary, IMO, was a better answer anyway.

Mark Mandel


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well, of course. Indeed, it's obvious.
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> -Wilson
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