Some years ago there was a great fuss about whether Spain was to be allowed to keep on producing and using computer keyboards with the ‘ñ’ character. I think it was around the same time that the alphabet was reformed and, although the eñe retained its independence, the ‘ch’ and ‘ll’ ceased to be treated as separate letters in dictionaries. (I was reminded of this on my last UK visit, when I had fun trying to find things in my sister’s old Collins dictionary published decades before the reform.)
Now the government has presumably paid a designer vast sums to produce a logo for the ‘Plan E’ (Plan Español para el Estímulo de la Economía y el Empleo), the programme whereby they hope to revitalise the economy here in Spain. (At least the graphic designers and printers are getting more work producing leaflets and posters to publicise the grants available.)
It seems odd there’s been no discussion in the Real Academia of the new letter that has been created as symbol for the plan: the capital E with an Elvis quiff:
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