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A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish").
[30] Some examples of contrasting brackets in the literature: In some English accents, the phoneme /l/ , which is usually spelled as l or ll , is articulated as two distinct allophones: the clear [l] occurs before vowels and the consonant /j/ , whereas the dark [ɫ] / [lˠ] occurs before consonants, except /j/ , and at the end of words.
[4] As of 2016–17, a total of 44 states, plus the District of Columbia , provide at least some state funding for pre-K programs. Nine states ( Colorado , Iowa , Kentucky , Maine , Oklahoma , Texas , Vermont , West Virginia , and Wisconsin ) plus D.C. include pre-K funding in their school funding formulas . [ 5 ]
In Brazil, kindergarten (Portuguese: Jardim de Infância) is the only non-compulsory education modality, for children up to four years old completed after March 31 for the vast majority of states. From the age of four completed until March 31, the child is eligible for preschool ( Pré-Escola ), which is mandatory and precedes the 1st grade.
The tilde (/ ˈ t ɪ l d ə /, also / ˈ t ɪ l d,-d i,-d eɪ /) [1] is a grapheme ˜ or ~ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish tilde, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. [2]