Like in Spanish ñ is a different letter while é is not.
Indeed, as you can see in the ordering of letters in the dictionary. The accent does not change the ordering sequence, there is no separate chapter for e and é, while the ñ has its own chapter.
ETA: This diacritic sign ⟨~⟩ is in turn called a tilde.
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I was aware of the dual meaning of the two-dots-over-a-letter mark, but didn’t know which one was meant here, nor that one is generally considered a different letter but the other isn’t. English is pretty boring with our alphabet, compared to most languages which use (variants on) the Latin letters.
English typography used German fonts, so the non-boring letters ( ‘th’ ) were just dropped. And AIR, Turkish added extra letters by using ‘lower case’ and ‘upper case’ differently.
How did the Germans get different letters indicated by unlaut?
Originally those letters were simply the letter followed by “e”. So “ae”, “or" and “ue”. The e eventually moved to the top of the letter (I don’t know what process led to that) , which eventually morphed nto two dots. Before widespread computer use, you would still see “ue” etc. if using, say, a typewriter without an umlaut function. My German textbook had a picture of a Munich license with “Muenchen” (München) on it.
Answered above.
Today I was reading about ‘Galloping Gertie’, the Tacoma Narrows bridge that collapsed in 1940. There were no human fatalities; however, there was one victim. One of the drivers on the bridge, reporter Leonard Coatsworth, abandoned his car and ran to safety, but he couldn’t convince his dog, Tubby, to get out of the car. Two other men tried to save the dog, but also failed; one of them suffered a bite to his finger. Tubby was the only casualty of the collapse.
However, the metal umlaut doesn’t affect the pronunciation at all, but only the coolness of the word.
What does “AIR” mean in this context?
You mean the metal ümlaüt.
I assume it’s “as I remember.”
Used to indicate an unsourced / unreferenced idea.
But I would expand it to “As I Recall” Does anyone have a source or reference?
That is why I was careful to distinguish phonetics and typography. Typography in general is much cooler than phonetics, if you ask me.
I cannot guarantee the “generally”, there are many contexts. What may be considered a different letter in the context of sorting words, like in a dictionary, or in the context of how it is spoken (but English can speak the same letter in many different ways) or how it is represented in print, not to mention the dreaded hand writing in cursive may vary a lot. Probably from country to country too. In Europe, for instance, cursive hand writing is still considered normal. So normal that it does not even have a name, nobody calls it cursive. They call it writing.
So how many letters does the German word Stößel have? And if you write it like this? Stoessel. Both are correct if you type them, but only the first is if you write the word by hand.
It was just a harmless nitpick, no hill to die on.
Of course, many languages (including English) have examples of words with alternate spellings, and even of spellings which are considered correct in some contexts but not others. And English also has cases where proper orthography differs between handwriting and type: For instance, titles of complete works should be in italics, in formats which allow for that, but since handwritten italics are very difficult to distinguish, underlined then.
I think you meant to quote Pleonast’s previous post?
Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud and Tito all lived in the same part of Vienna in 1913. They apparently all visited the same cafes.
In addition to the Big 3 broadcast networks, there was a short-lived fourth network for a few weeks in 1967, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Network, which aired one program hosted by Bill Dana.
Comedian and actor Ed Wynn (he was Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins, among a great, great many other roles) tried in 1933 to start up a major radio broadcasting network, Amalgamated Broadcasting. It was much harder and more expensive than he’d anticipated, and Wynn lost a huge amount of money and had a nervous breakdown, then went back to comedy.
Caterpillars apparently don’t morph directly into butterflies in the chrysalis. The caterpillar releases enzymes that liquefy itself into a “goo” or soup during the pupal stage inside a chrysalis before reforming into a butterfly.
That’s wild, but more than that, how in Zeus’s’ toot-hole, did that system evolve ?
On the topic of defunct TV networks…