![]() ![]() This saved on the expense of the scribe's labour and the cost of vellum and ink. Such a mark could denote the omission of one letter or several letters. Thus the commonly used words Anno Domini were frequently abbreviated to A o Dñi, an elevated terminal with a suspension mark placed above the "n". The reason for the name was that it was originally written over a letter as a scribal abbreviation, as a "mark of suspension", shown as a straight line when used with capitals. The name of the character came into English from Spanish, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning "title" or "superscription". The tilde ( / ˈ t ɪ l d ə/ ˜ or ~) is a grapheme with several uses.
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