From: Leonardo Boiko (leoboiko@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2010 - 10:52:58 CDT
2010/8/31 Janusz S. Bień <jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl>:
> First, is "semivirgula" a good name? Google shows that it often refers
> to semicolon.
I’m no specialist and I have no idea about what’s the original name of
that diacritic, but “virgula” is the name of the comma in medieval
manuscripts[1]. To this day it’s the word for “comma” in Portuguese.
We also call the semicolon a “ponto e vĂrgula” – period and comma,
dot-and-comma.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=virgula
-- Leonardo Boiko
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