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  2. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters English alphabet An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface Script type Alphabet Time period c. 16th century – present Languages English Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto ...

  3. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    L with middle tilde: Velarized alveolar lateral approximant, Teuthonista phonetic transcription system for German dialectology [4] Ɬ ɬ 𐞛 L with belt: Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [19] 𝼓 L with belt and palatal hook: Used in phonetic transcription [27] [20] 𝼑 L with fishhook

  4. Middle name - Wikipedia

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    A middle name that is rather unusual among English speakers is that of Jennifer 8. Lee, an American author. Lee was not given a middle name at birth so she chose "8" when she was a teenager, in a nod to her Chinese ancestry; in Chinese culture, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck.

  5. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where the design of many of the letters comes from a sound's place of articulation, like P looking like the widened mouth and L looking like the tongue pulled in. [47] [better source needed] The creation of Hangul was planned by the government of the day, [48] and it places individual ...

  6. N (disambiguation) Naam (disambiguation) NACA (disambiguation) Nadi (disambiguation) Nadir (disambiguation) Nafta (disambiguation) Nagarjuna (disambiguation)

  7. Yogh - Wikipedia

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    The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Insular form of the letter g, Ᵹᵹ. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.

  8. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Morgan (real name Belarius) steals the two infant sons of the king in Cymbeline, and raises them as his own. The Prince of Morocco is an unsuccessful suitor to Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Mortimer: Edmund Mortimer (1) is a claimant to the English throne, and a leader of the rebel forces, in Henry IV, Part 1.

  9. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    Five of the six vowels A, I, O, U and Y can get accents and are after that considered separate letters. The consonants C, Q, X, W and Z are not found. Therefore, the first five letters are A, Á, B, D and Ð, and the last five are V, Y, Ý, Æ, Ø; In Filipino (Tagalog) and other Philippine languages, the letter Ng is treated as a separate letter.