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  2. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The lowercase letter p: The French way of writing this character has a half-way ascender as the vertical extension of the descender, which also does not complete the bowl at the bottom. In early Finnish writing, the curve to the bottom was omitted, thus the resulting letter resembled an n with a descender (like ꞃ).

  3. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  4. 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 ...

  5. English Braille - Wikipedia

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    The number sign is repeated after a slash that is not used as a fraction bar (like model number 15/07). [24] For example, 1 ⁄ 20 (one twentieth) is ⠼ ⠁ ⠌ ⠃ ⠚ , but 20/20 [vision] is ⠼ ⠃ ⠚ ⠌ ⠼ ⠃ ⠚ . The braille number sign has no equivalent in print. It is sometimes transcribed as # .

  6. French alphabet - Wikipedia

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    From a cross-project redirect: This is a redirect from a title linked to an item on Wikidata.The Wikidata item linked to this page is French alphabet (Q755124).. Use this template only on hard redirects – for soft redirects use {{Soft redirect with Wikidata item}}.

  7. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The ampersand (&) has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. [2] & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, as taught to children in the US and elsewhere. [vague] An example may be seen in M. B. Moore's 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. [3]

  8. Reforms of French orthography - Wikipedia

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    The borrowing of connoisseur into English predates this change; the modern French spelling is connaisseur. étois → étais (was) The spelling of some plural words whose singular form ended in D and T was modified to reinsert this mute consonant, so as to bring the plural in morphological alignment with the singular.

  9. French phonology - Wikipedia

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    French phonology is the sound system of French. This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French . Notable phonological features include its uvular r , nasal vowels , and three processes affecting word-final sounds: