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  2. J - Wikipedia

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    J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced / ˈ dʒ eɪ / ), with a now-uncommon variant jy / ˈ dʒ aɪ / .

  3. Je (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter J. [1] Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović, [2] and the final choice also notably edged out another expected candidate, й, used in every other ...

  4. Voiced palatal approximant - Wikipedia

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    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 [citation needed], as in the phonological history terms yod-dropping and yod-coalescence.

  5. Jack Hartman - Wikipedia

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    Lon Kruger with Hartman in 1972. After college, he played quarterback in the CFL before becoming a basketball coach. After leading the Coffeyville Junior College basketball team to the NJCAA National Championship with a 32–0 season in 1962, he took his high-octane offense to Southern Illinois University, replacing Harry Gallatin, who left to take the head coaching job with the St. Louis Hawks.

  6. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    So whether the sound [k] is written with the letters "c" or "k" in I.T.A. depends on the way the sound is written in standard English spelling, as also whether the sound [z] is written with the ordinary "z" letter or with a special backwards "z" letter (which replaces the "s" of standard spelling where it represents a voiced sound, and which ...

  7. Yodh - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), [1] Latin I and J, Cyrillic І, Coptic iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis. The term yod is often used to refer to the speech sound [ j ] , a palatal approximant , even in discussions of languages not written in Semitic abjads, as in phonological phenomena such as English " yod-dropping ".

  8. J with stroke - Wikipedia

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    J with stroke (majuscule Ɉ, minuscule ɉ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from J with the addition of a bar through the letter. It is used in Arhuaco in Colombia to represent /dʒ/ , like j in English j ust , and in Oniyan when written with the Guinean languages alphabet in Guinea .

  9. Spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Whereas the names of many letters sound alike, the set of replacement words can be selected to be as distinct from each other as possible, to minimise the likelihood of ambiguity or mistaking one letter for another. For example, if a burst of static cuts off the start of an English-language utterance of the letter J, it may be mistaken for A or K.