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  2. Long s - Wikipedia

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    Incidence of the word-forms "laft" and "last" in English documents from 1700 to 1900, according to Google's web n-grams database. Based on OCR scans of books, which can misidentify the long s as f. [9] In general, the long s fell out of use in roman and italic typefaces in professional printing well before the middle of the 19th century.

  3. Missing letter effect - Wikipedia

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    The position of letters in words and the position of suffix morphemes have an influence on word identification, letter detection, and the missing letter effect in texts. [20] [21] [22] The letters at the start and end of words, or the first and last letter of a word, contribute to how people read and recognize words. [21]

  4. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    This is a list of words and phrases related to death in alphabetical order. While some of them are slang, others euphemize the unpleasantness of the subject, or are used in formal contexts. Some of the phrases may carry the meaning of 'kill', or simply contain words related to death. Most of them are idioms

  5. Ezh - Wikipedia

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    It is pronounced as the s in "treasure" or the si in the word "precision". It is used with that value in Uropi. It is used in the "International Standard" orthography, as devised by Marcel Courthiade for Romani. It was also used in an obsolete Latin alphabet for writing Komi, where it represented [d͡ʑ] (similar to English j ). In the modern ...

  6. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z

  7. Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Franklin modified the standard English alphabet by omitting the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, and adding new letters to explicitly represent the open-mid back rounded [ɔ] and unrounded [ʌ] vowels, and the consonants sh [ʃ], ng [ŋ], dh [ð], and th [θ]. It was one of the earlier proposed spelling reforms to the English language.

  8. List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

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    This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990 or whose deaths or exact circumstances thereof are not substantiated. Many people who disappear end up declared presumed dead and some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance .

  9. List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910

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    The Roanoke colonists, including Ananias, age 27–30; Eleanor, age 19; and Virginia Dare, age 2 or 3, the first English child born in a New World English overseas possession, disappeared becoming known as the Lost Colony. On 18 August 1590, their settlement was found abandoned.