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‘X’ Between Vowels Due to regional variations, there aren’t any rules that hold true throughout the Spanish-speaking world. In general, however, when between vowels (as in exactamente) the Spanish x is pronounced like the English “ks” sound but softer or less explosive.

Alphabet in Spanish. Although the letters ⟨k⟩ and ⟨w⟩ are part of the alphabet, they appear only in loanwords such as karate, kilo, waterpolo and wolframio (tungsten) and in sensational spellings: okupa, bakalao.

According to the Wikipedia page for the Spanish language, under “Writing system”, they are all loanwords (directly integrated or words “adapted” to the Spanish writing system): The letters “k” and “w” are used only in words and names coming from foreign languages (kilo, folklore, whiskey, William, etc.

ñ

Tilde

“∼” is one of many symbols, listed in the Wikipedia article on approximation, used to indicate that one number is approximately equal to another. “∼” is one of many symbols used in logic to indicate negation.

Noun. 1. tilde – a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.

· 8y. The tilde sign generally means ‘about’ or ‘approximately’, and when used at the end of a sentence it’s intended to convey a cute warbling trail-off rather than an abrupt stop.

The tilde (/ˈtɪldə/ or /ˈtɪldi/), ˜ or ~, is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish and from Portuguese, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning “title” or “superscription”.

Practical uses of the tilde Informally, the symbol can be used to mean “approximately.” For example: “~30 minutes before sautéing the onions, chop the potatoes coarsely.” A tilde (~) can also indicate the words “similar to” as used in a mathematical equation. For example: “x~y”, means “x is similar in value to y”.

It is a letter in the Spanish alphabet that is used for many words—for example, the Spanish word año (anno in Old Spanish) meaning “year” and derived from Latin annus. Spanish retained it, however, in some specific cases, particularly to indicate the palatal nasal, the sound that is now spelt as ñ.

The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction “and”. It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for “and”.

The official name of the number sign, the one located at the bottom right hand corner of phone keypads and used to label hashtags on social media, is octothorpe. Also called a hash or a pound sign, the symbol has roots in 14th century Latin. They called it the “octotherp,” which eventually became the octothorpe.

The name of ‘*’ symbol is asterisk. The word comes from ancient Greek word ‘asteriskos’ meaning little star. In computer mathematics, it is used as multiplication symbol.

The asterisk /ˈæst(ə)rɪsk/ *, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, “little star”, is a typographical symbol. In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication.

The pilcrow, also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P, is a typographical character for individual paragraphs. The pilcrow is usually drawn similar to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the loop can be filled or unfilled.

£

: of or relating to pigeons.

transitive verb. 1 : to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption. 2 : to seize upon to the exclusion of others : take for oneself the movement was then preempted by a lunatic fringe.

USAGE: “But I do like the look of a dovecote. After all, these peristeronic palaces do grace the gardens of some of our finest stately homes.”