5: Cedilla

Eric's word for the week is that saucy little tail on the bottom of a 'c,' that's more fun to say than it is to type, it's 'cedilla.'

 

Cedilla - noun

: the diacritical mark ¸ placed under a letter (such as ç in French) to indicate an alteration or modification of its usual phonetic value (as in the French word façade)

 

In this episode:

• C is a stupid letter
• Ambush haircuts
• We formally acknowledge this is a deeply American problem
• “Optional” grammatical markings
• What’s the ____ diacritical mark?
• Don't be supercilious, sex is super silly...ous
• This quickie could have been an email

 

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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary