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  2. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The song "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic features the line "hope is our four-letter word". Hate: The band Shock Therapy sang a song "Hate Is a 4-Letter Word". Jazz: A photo-montage by partner-artists Privat & Primat is titled "Jazz and Love are 4-Letter Words". Nice: Good Omens's famous wall scene: Crowley's "I'm not nice; nice is a four-letter ...

  3. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters English alphabet An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface Script type Alphabet Time period c. 16th century – present Languages English Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto ...

  4. Alternade - Wikipedia

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    In the majority of alternades, every second letter is used to make two smaller words, but in some cases, every third letter is used to make three smaller words. Theoretically, a very long word could use every fourth letter to make four smaller words; e.g., «partitioned» is an alternade for «pin», «ate», «rid», and «to».

  5. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    Flags of certain countries at the Élysée Palace in Paris for a peace conference regarding Libya, 2011. The national flags (other than that of the host, France) are arranged in French alphabetical order: Allemagne, Belgique, Canada, Danemark, Émirats Arabes Unis, Espagne, États-Unis, Grèce, Irak, Italie, Jordanie, Maroc, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Qatar, Royaume-Uni.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters used for non-existent phonemes were dropped. [35] Afterwards, however, the alphabet went through many different changes. The final classical form of Etruscan contained 20 letters. Four of them are vowels— a, e, i, u —six fewer letters than the earlier forms. The script in its classical form was used until the 1st century CE.

  8. Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

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    A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words.

  9. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    N with oblique stroke: Pre-1921 Latvian letterN with middle tilde 𝼧 N with mid-height left hook: Used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language. [44] Ņ ņ: N with cedilla: Latvian Ņ̂ ņ̂: N with cedilla and circumflex: Accented Latvian Ņ̃ ņ̃: N with cedilla and ...