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This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation it is y . Because the English name of the letter J, jay, starts with [dʒ] (voiced postalveolar affricate), the approximant is sometimes instead called yod (jod), as in the phonological history terms yod-dropping and yod-coalescence.
Thus the word Yidish 'Yiddish' is spelled ייִדיש. The first yod represents [j]; the second yod represents [i] and is distinguished from the adjacent [j] by a dot; the third yod represents [i] as well, but no dot is necessary. The digraph יי, consisting of two yods, represents the diphthong [ej].
The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use. By the 16th century, the present set of 26 letters had largely stabilised:
Main entries in the OSPD contain from two to eight letters since those are considered to be the most useful. The compilation was produced by hand and many errata and omissions were later discovered. For example, the word granola was present in all five nominated dictionaries but not in the OSPD. A second edition, OSPD 2, was released in 1991.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 December 2024. 10th letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see J (disambiguation). For technical reasons, "J#" redirects here. For the programming language, see J Sharp. For the Cyrillic letter Ј, see Je (Cyrillic). J J j Usage ...
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