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CEDILLA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CEDILLA. A DIACRITIC used in French under the letter c to indicate a soft pronunciation...borrowed word: for example, both façade and facade occur. The cedilla is also used in Portuguese, Romanian, and Turkish.
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French language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...serve to indicate the pronunciation of a vowel, distinguish homonyms, or mark the discarding of the letter s from a word. A cedilla placed below the letter c (ç) signals that the c is to be pronounced as s. Ordinarily, c is pronounced as k before...
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C
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...is soft before ae , oe in Latin caesura and Greek coelacanth , soft in French façade (often written without the cedilla, as facade ), and generally hard in Celt/Celtic . It has a ch -sound as in cheese , in such loans from Italian as cello...
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DIACRITIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...marked with a MACRON , the ‘short’ vowel ă marked with a BREVE ) and to indicate SYLLABICATION , as with the medial dot in bathroom . See CEDILLA , CIRCUMFLEX , PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION , POINT , TRANSLITERATION.
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Portuguese language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...indicate a contraction, as in às, which is a combination of a "to" and as "the" (feminine plural). A c with a cedilla ( ç ) is pronounced like c in English place when used before the vowels a, o, and u. As in Spanish, there are...
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alphanumeric
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...characters" means only English letters, an alphanumeric character set may also include letters from other languages that also use the Roman alphabet, such as an e with an acute accent ( é ) or a c with a cedilla ( ç ).
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Geofroy Tory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Champfleury (1529), wherein he explains and illustrates the theory governing his designs of roman capitals. Tory advocated the use of the French language; he introduced accents, the apostrophe, and the cedilla into the printing of French.
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accents
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
accents Name Example Acute é Breve ă Caron č Cedilla ç Circumflex ô Grave è Macron ā Tilde ñ Diaresis / umlaut ü
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