The temperance movement and the Eighteenth Amendment. 1  In the United States an early wave of movements for state and local prohibition arose from the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and â30s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance and abolitionism.
TIL (or T.I.L.) typically is an abbreviation for Today I Learned when used on the web at sites like Reddit.com or Digg.com TIL may also mean Until, later. TIL may also stand for That is Lame.
Definition: A mark that is placed on a letter to indicate that it has a different pronunciation than it would otherwise, or to indicate that the word has a different meaning than it would otherwise. English uses diacritical marks almost solely in words of foreign origin, and they are often omitted.ote that in Spanish, the word tilde can be used to refer to accent marks on vowels as well as the mark of the n. Ã±: Examples Many spanish words such as arbol Ã¡rbol use accents to put the stress on the. correct syllable