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Noemi2
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The other day students were practising spelling full names and they asked me a question: how do you say "ñ" in English when you spell? It is not a letter in the English alphabet, but it exists in the Spanish one.
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25 Sep 2011
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MoodyMoody
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You are right, ñ isn ´t a letter in English. Even in Spanish names, we just usually use n. They won ´t like it, but we English speakers are too lazy most of the time to use any diacritic marks, including accents. We write, for example, Maria, not María. We can ´t do it on an English keyboard with one stroke. To make the ñ, I had to strike Alt 0241 (the 0241 from the numeric keypad, not the top line of the regular keyboard). What do you on a laptop with no keypad when you aren ´t in MS Word? Much too much trouble for most Americans, anyway. |
25 Sep 2011
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almaz
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I usually say ´n-tilde´ or ´n with a tilde´, although here in Spain I tend to say something along the lines of ´enya´.
@Moody: I have a MacBook, and on the British keyboard, it´s just a matter of alt + n + n. ñ - just like that.
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25 Sep 2011
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ldthemagicman
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Similar to Almaz, I say "Enn-yay", or "N with a tilde". Here in the UK, all of my colleagues who are Language Teachers write using appropriate foreign accents. This site may help you to form the accents, using 2 computer-strokes, without much trouble. Les
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25 Sep 2011
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