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  2. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] ( air ).

  3. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    Good Omens's famous wall scene: Crowley's "I'm not nice; nice is a four-letter word" A specified word that does not actually have four letters: The band Cake made a play on words in their song "Friend Is a Four Letter Word." The song "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" by Against Me! features the line "to you solidarity's a four-letter word."

  4. Four-square cipher - Wikipedia

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    The four-square cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique. [1] It was invented by the French cryptographer Felix Delastelle.. The technique encrypts pairs of letters (digraphs), and falls into a category of ciphers known as polygraphic substitution ciphers.

  5. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    L S U: N R T: O: A I: E 2 G: D: 3 B C M P: 4 F H V W Y: 5 ... form of the letter. The pattern of using the isolated forms in composing words is also found in Arabic ...

  6. Word square - Wikipedia

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    A Sator Square (in SATOR-form), on a wall in the medieval fortress town of Oppède-le-Vieux, France. A word square is a type of acrostic.It consists of a set of words written out in a square grid, such that the same words can be read both horizontally and vertically.

  7. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    Keyboard used for a long period by an English speaker: the letters E, O, T, H, A, S, I, N, and R show substantial wear; some wear is visible on D, L, U, Y, M, W, F, G, C, B, and P; and little or no wear is visible on K, V, J, Q, X, or Z. There are three ways to count letter frequency that result in very different charts for common letters.

  8. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels, although I and U represent consonants in words such as "onion" and "quail" respectively. The letter Y sometimes represents a consonant (as in "young") and sometimes a vowel (as in "myth").

  9. Spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The FCC regulations for Amateur radio state that "Use of a phonetic alphabet as an aid for correct station identification is encouraged" (47 C.F.R. § 97.119(b)(2) [44]), but does not state which set of words should be used. Officially the same as used by ICAO, but there are significant variations commonly used by stations participating in HF ...