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Agreed. We who are exposed to Spanish names, street names, place names, etc. that contain the letter ñ always have to distinguish the letter by saying something like an n with a tilde (over it) or an n with a squiggley (curvy, wavy) mark. Tilde is an English word (pronounced TILL-duh) we borrowed from Spanish. The symbol itself has many other uses in science (especially mathematics and computer sciences). It started appearing on keyboards ~1960 (circa 1960). It was added to the ASCII standard in 1965.
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