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Ultimate – Z (last or ultimate letter of the alphabet) United - U (Man U., common abbreviation of Manchester United F.C.) United Nations – UN; University – U or OU (Open University) or UP (in the UK one goes up to university) Unknown – X, Y or Z (mathematical variable)
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
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
transliteration: ro: hiragana origin: 呂: katakana origin: 呂: Man'yōgana: 路 漏 呂 侶: spelling kana: ローマのロ Rōma no "ro": unicode: U+308D, U+30ED: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes ...
As designated in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation, the standard set of symbols used to show the pronunciation of English words on Wikipedia is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA has significant advantages over this respelling system, as it can be used to accurately represent pronunciations from any language in the world ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
Following labials /p b f v m/: pupa, furor, nebula, uvula, musæum Following velars /k ɡ/ : c u mulus, lac u na, Lig u ria When it is in an interior unstressed syllable not following a palatal consonant, /j/ remains after a single consonant even when it might be deleted in a stressed syllable: aman u ensis and cf. "cell u lar, gran u lar", for ...