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The Greater Leon

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The tilde (~) (/ˈtɪldə/ or /ˈtɪldeɪ/) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, though the term “tilde” has evolved in that language and now has a different meaning in Linguistics.

It was originally written over a letter as a mark of abbreviation, but has since acquired a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right, and there are a number of Unicode characters for these different roles. In the latter capacity (especially in lexicography), a tilde is sometimes confused with a swung dash (⁓) which is used in dictionaries to indicate the omission of a word.[1]
 

Lovage

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The tilde (~) (/ˈtɪldə/ or /ˈtɪldeɪ/) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, though the term “tilde” has evolved in that language and now has a different meaning in Linguistics.

It was originally written over a letter as a mark of abbreviation, but has since acquired a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right, and there are a number of Unicode characters for these different roles. In the latter capacity (especially in lexicography), a tilde is sometimes confused with a swung dash (⁓) which is used in dictionaries to indicate the omission of a word.[1]
lol i know what a tilde is
i have no idea what it means when you use~~~~ it
 
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