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nn was originally written in 1984 by Kim F. Storm to provide an alternative more user-friendly way to access Usenet than the existing newsreaders.
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Kim F. Storm's nn newsreader was the first to implement this new model, and it looked for a while as if nn would do to rn what rn did to readnews.
Historically, " ñ " arose as a ligature of " nn ": the tilde was shorthand for the second " n ", written over the first.
The sign was also adopted for the same palatal nasal in all other cases, even when it did not derive from an original " nn ", as for leña ( from Latin " ligna ") or señor ( from Latin " senior ").
Until the middle of the 20th century, adapting it to " nn " was more common in English, as in the phrase " Battle of Corunna ".
In Spanish the digraph nn, which used to indicate ( palatal nasal ), was turned into the letter ñ, while ll indicates ( traditionally a palatal lateral approximant, though it has several dialectal variants in modern Spanish ).
( It is sometimes spelled mocino, but " ñ " was formerly spelled " nn " in Spanish, so the spelling with " nn " is justified and in any case now official .< sup >, </ sup >)
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Another purported Oscan influence ( claimed by some to be more likely than the previous one ) is historical assimilation of the consonant cluster / nd / as / nn /, pronounced ( this generally is reflected in spelling more consistently ) ( e. g .- " munno " (' world ', compare to Italian " mondo "), " quanno " (' when ', compare to Italian " quando "), etc.
Placeholders used to detail each PostBar format below are A, N, Z and B for the character sets described above, * for the start and stop fields, # for a space character ( two full-height bars followed by one tracker ), and for the error-correction field, where nn is the number of bars used.
In the orthography a letter n followed by a vowel or glottal indicates that the preceding vowel is contrastively nasalised, unless in word-final position when nasalisation is indicated by a double nn and a single n is a final consonant.
The doppler shift from the rapid rotation results in very diffuse absorption lines in the star's spectrum, as indicated by the ' nn ' in the classification.
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