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i I have a question really, in Spanish spanish there is something called a "tilde", usually known as "acento", well, al least in my country is the same. "acento" is the intonation entonation that a person uses to speak and "tilde" is a little line over a vowel, for example "caminó"
so my question is, is there any name for "tilde" in English?
i'm asking this because as far as for what I know in English the "tilde" is not used, thanks :)
Pd: if I wrote something wrong, please correct me
As a native British English speaker and student of Spanish I would use the word tilde to desribe this symbol, ~ ususally used over the letter ñ. I would use the expression 'acute accent' to descibe the forward facing accent such as ó.