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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».
The characters used for numeric digamma/stigma are distinguished in modern print from the character used to represent the ancient alphabetic digamma, the letter for the [w] sound. This is rendered in print by a Latin "F", or sometimes a variant of it specially designed to fit in typographically with Greek ( Ϝ ).
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
In Turkey, the use of the w was banned between 1928 and 2013 [18] [19] which was a problem for the Kurdish population in Turkey as the w was a letter of the Kurdish alphabet. [20] The use of the letter w in the word Newroz, the Kurdish new year, was forbidden, [21] and names which included the letter were not able to be used.
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Each word is worth up to £500 but its value decreases by £50 for each attempt. Both the four-letter word and five-letter word games are followed by an eleven-letter puzzle word (twelve-letter puzzle word in Series 1) worth up to £1,000 but its value decreases by £180 per letter after the first one as more letters are revealed.
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The 2014 update OTCWL2014 [a] added several thousand words from two new sources, Oxford Collegiate Dictionary Second Edition [b] and Canadian Oxford Dictionary Second Edition. [ c ] OTCWL2016, [ d ] a minor update in 2016, added over 1,000 nine-letter words.