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What is a cedilla?

What is a cedilla? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (orthography) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark (¸) sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in French menaçant and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.
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This new accentual emphasis sometimes stems from a mere cedilla.
To make a C with a cedilla, for example, involved a lot more effort and thought than holding down the Option key on your Mac.
In this work Tory put forward the idea of accents, the apostrophe, the cedilla, and simple punctuation marks.
Cael in Ortelius and Homannus, the cedilla has been omitted in another part of this work.
Their chicest detail may have been the Comme des Garçons label, typeset in a font created by Kawakubo, with a star for the cedilla, which hasn't changed.
The Haitian-American wide receiver Pierre Garçon, for example, has had the cedilla on his name bar while he was with the Indianapolis Colts, and now with Washington.

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