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In Irish, h is not considered an independent letter, except for a very few non-native words; however, h placed after a consonant is known as a "séimhiú" and indicates the lenition of that consonant; h began to replace the original form of a séimhiú, a dot placed above the consonant, after the introduction of typewriters.
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.
The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BC. Nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic script. [ 1 ]
In the summer of 1988, Paul Miles watched helplessly from a chair as two of his toddlers rolled a ball across the carpet of the unfinished garage he’d converted into a playroom before the accident.
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In the Ionic dialects, where this loss of /h/ happened early, the name of the letter naturally changed to Ēta, and the letter was subsequently turned from a consonant to a new use as a vowel, denoting the long half-open /ɛː/ sound. In this function it later entered the classical orthography adopted across the whole of Greece.