On Thursday 23 April, the Google doodle celebrates the origins and influences of the letter that looks like ... into one and scrawled on top a tiny ‘n’ — a symbol now known as a ‘virgulill ...

The problem is that Ñ is a letter; it is not an English N with a toupée. Formally adopted into the Spanish language (or the Castilian language, some would interject) centuries ago, it has since ...