Prepositions: Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word

Spanish’s letters, part 1:

The Spanish language can be credited with the invention 1)___ two letters.  The first, which is actually no longer used in Spanish itself, is the C-cedilla, the Ç.  It was created to represent the sound of “ts” 2)___ Medieval Spanish, and it got its name from the diminutive of the Visigothic name for Z, “zeda”, due to the fact that the virgule underneath the C was originally a Z.  However, 3)___ the “ts” evolved 4)___ either a “th” or an “s” sound, it was decided that the letter Ç was no longer necessary, so it was dropped in the 18th century.  5)___ that time, however, many other languages, including French and Portuguese, had already adopted it.

Answers

1. of

2. in

3. as

4. into

5. By

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