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A spelling alphabet (also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially over a two-way radio or telephone. The words chosen to represent the letters sound sufficiently different from each other to clearly differentiate them.
Another type of spelling characteristic is related to word origin. For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound /ɪ/ in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .
When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing".
A more likely explanation is that the /z/ sound that it probably represented had disappeared from Latin after turning into /r/ due to a rhotacism process, [7] making the letter useless for spelling Latin words. [8] Whatever the case may be, Appius Claudius's distaste for the letter Z is today credited as the reason for its removal.
Anadrome: a word or phrase that reads as a different word or phrase in reverse; Apronym: an acronym that is also a phrase pertaining to the original meaning RAS syndrome: repetition of a word by using it both as a word alone and as a part of the acronym; Recursive acronym: an acronym that has the acronym itself as one of its components
Like j , k , w , x and z , v is not used very frequently in English. It is the sixth least frequently used letter in the English language, occurring in roughly 1% of words. v is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the British [4] and Australian [5] versions of the game of Scrabble.
The words given as examples for two different symbols may sound the same to you. For example, you may pronounce cot and caught , do and dew , or marry and merry the same. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects ).
In other words, the sound that most English speakers think of as /t/ is really a group of sounds, all pronounced slightly differently depending on where they occur in a word. A perfectly phonemic orthography has one letter per group of sounds (phoneme), with different letters only where the sounds distinguish words (so "bed" is spelled ...