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  2. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.

  3. Letter case - Wikipedia

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    The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet.. Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

  4. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1]

  5. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  6. Old English Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ƿ, Þ).

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    An example of a font that uses turned small-capital omega ꭥ for the vowel letter ʊ. The symbol had originally been a small-capital ᴜ . Among consonant letters, the small capital letters ɢ ʜ ʟ ɴ ʀ ʁ , and also ꞯ in extIPA, indicate more guttural sounds than their base letters – ʙ is a late