Dele

The Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera ( ), or DELE, are official diplomas issued by the Spanish Instituto Cervantes on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science to participants who have passed a standardised test indicating their Spanish language proficiency. The diplomas do not expire. Every year, more than 60,000 examinations are taken by candidates in more than 800 examination centres from more than 100 countries. In many countries, the DELE Diplomas have been adopted by schools and universities as a complement to their own evaluation systems, such that it is used as an entry requirement for non-native Spanish speakers. A related diploma offered by the Instituto Cervantes since 2015 is the Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española (SIELE; ) that tests knowledge of a few Latin American varieties of Spanish as well as European Spanish.

A dele or deleatur ( , ) is an obelism (a proofreading symbol) used to mark something for deletion. ==Name== Dele is the more common term in modern American English, sometimes used as a verb, as in "Dele that graf"), coinciding with the imperative form of the Latin delere ("to delete"). The Oxford English Dictionary notes an earlier use in English of deleatur (Latin "let it be deleted"), suggesting that dele in English might have been an abbreviation for the longer word. ==Origin== The origin of the symbol appears to be an archaic letter D in the Kurrent script, as an abbreviation for dele or deleatur. The symbol is markedly similar (if not identical in some cases) to the symbol for the German penny ( ), which is an archaic lowercase d, for denarius. As with most hand-written letters and symbols, its appearance is variable. A different theory states simply that it is "a form of 'd' meaning 'delete'". ==Computer representation== Version 15.0, from September 2022, of Unicode has no character for the dele symbol. In 2021, a proposal was submitted (number "L2/21-230") for the addition of the dele symbol to Unicode. The same proposal was resubmitted (number "L2/21-245") a month later with an expanded description to emphasize its usage with other Unicode signs. ==Usage== ; insert semicolon; insert comma; and transpose circled text.)]] The dele is used in proofreading and copy editing, where it can be written over the selected text itself (such that it often resembles a stretched cursive e), or else in the margin alongside the selected text, which is usually struck through with a line. The stricken text or the dele itself can be framed by top and bottom curved brackets, as in the above example, to indicate that the space left after deletion is to be closed up. As the need for such closing up can usually be inferred from the context, however, the brackets are often omitted. A dele can be undone with a stet. ==Symbols similar in appearance== In some of its forms, the dele is similar in appearance to: The German penny symbol, ₰ The flourish of approval In the form "used by ISO and BS", the dele is somewhat similar in appearance to the percent sign, but missing its lower bulb. In a third form, the dele is similar in appearance to the unrelated characters , , , . In another form, the dele resembles somewhat a hollow , or perhaps an ornate, calligraphic lowercase letter d. Additional forms can be noted that are even harder to characterize. ==See also== List of proofreader's marks ==References== ==Bibliography== ==External links== List of proofreading marks

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