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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2119559, member: 73555&quot;]I think more a transliteration constraint than spacing.&nbsp; Before the computer age, we saw newspapers and magazines stuggle with Spanish words, like using manana instead of mañana.&nbsp; The mini-N is called a <b><i>tilde.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I forgot these notes.&nbsp; Some people mistakenly (but semi-logically) refer to the TH character as &quot;thorn&quot; -- no connection.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure of its sound.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29" rel="nofollow">Thorn (letter)</a> (Þ, þ), a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurisaz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurisaz" rel="nofollow">Thorn (rune)</a> (ᚦ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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