The cedilla appears under what letter in some French words?
Cedilla Cedilla A cedilla ( ; from Spanish), also known as cedilha (from Portuguese) or cédille (from French), is a hook or tail ( ¸ ) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation. In Catalan, French, and Portuguese, it is used only under the "c", and the entire letter is called respectively "c trencada" (i.e. "broken C"), "c cédille", and "c cedilhado" (or "c cedilha", colloquially). The tail originated in Spain as the bottom half of a miniature cursive z. The word "cedilla" is the diminutive of the Old Spanish name for this letter, "ceda" (zeta).
Cedilla and Lithuanian letters "ą", "ę", "į", and "ų" are not made with the cedilla either, but with the unrelated ogonek diacritic. In 1868, Ambroise Firmin-Didot suggested in his book "Observations sur l'orthographe, ou ortografie, française" (Observations on French Spelling) that French phonetics could be better regularized by adding a cedilla beneath the letter "t" in some words. For example, the suffix "-tion" this letter is usually not pronounced as (or close to) in either French or English, but respectively as and . It has to be distinctly learned that in words such as French "diplomatie" (but not "diplomatique") and English