English Alphabet History

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Hawaiian.

This is actually not true. The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters including the apostrophe, or okina, which is used as a letter.

Africa would come first in a list of continents in alphabetical order. The continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America

acceded

ace

ag

bad

bade

badge

bag

bagged

bead

beaded

bed

bedded

beef

beefed

beg

begged

cab

cabbage

cad

cafe

cage

cadged

caged

dab

dabbed

dead

deaf

decade

deface

defaced

edge

efface

effaced

egghead

fab

facade

face

faced

fad

fade

faded

fag

fed

feed

feedbag

gab

gabbed

gad

gage

gagged

I think it's Gee...

Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is not really part of the riddle. There is a riddle that asks how many letters are in alphabet. The answer is 8 versus 26 since they are actually asking about the word alphabet.

The impportance of having a NATO phonetic alphabet is so police or army personel don't misunderstand the spelling of a place or registration plate .e.g. picture this situation you are at police HQ listening to officers in a car chase...they lose him. one PC can recall the number plate so he tells you so you can dispatch a few more units to search for the car he says, MSO-767-N.....but you mistake it for NSO-767-Mand you nick the wrong guy! But if he said: mike sierra Oscar- 767-November you would NT of mistaken it!

While many sites attempt to spell alphabetic characters phonetically (A=ay, O=oh, U=yu) the true names of the letters of the English alphabet (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) are:

A= ay

B=bee

C= cee

D=dee

E=ey

F=ef

G=gee

H=aitch

I=ie

J=jay

K=kay

L=el or ell

M=em

N=en

O=oh

P=pee

Q=cue

R=ar

S=ess

T=tee

U=yu

V=vee

W=double-u

X=ex

Y=wye or wy

Z=zee or zed

In English 'M' - In Greek 'N' (nu)

UPPER CASE LETTERS A B C D E H I K M N O S T U V W X Y Z

lower case c i k l m o s v w x z

It depends on the font. In this font there are:

10 capital letters: B E F H I K L P R T

3 lower case letters: f k t

The first English-language book to make a clear distinction between I and J was published in 1634 (Ref). Its use in the English alphabet followed, the letter J was the last of the 26 letters to be added to the English Alphabet. Its emerging distinctive use dates back to Middle High German, originally being a typographical flourish or swash character on the Roman i. The Italian: Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478-1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds in 1524 with his "Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language." [Ref: Hogg, Richard M.; Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, Suzanne Romaine, R. W. Burchfield, John Algeo (1992). The Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. p.39. ISBN 0521264766. http://books.google.com/books?id=CCvMbntWth8C.]

ABC means Already Been Chewed

you come up with a topic and write 2 pages about it.

2) or get a nerd to do it for u then you go out and play all day long

3)final answer dont do it but copy from somebody else

A conversation between characters is called a 'dialogue.'

There are two kinds of letters: vowels and consonants. Therefore, if a letter is not a vowel, it is a consonant. A consonant is a sound where the breath is at least partially obstructed. Combined with a vowel, they together can form a syllable.

The best way of learning how to say the alphabet backwards is probably not the one you were hoping to hear!! It is to write it out forwards and then either read it out backwards, or rewrite it the way you see it, but reading from right to left. Start at a still, but have it on the right hand side of your page rather than the left! I hope you find this information useful, and happy learning!!

(If this speeds things up a bit, the alphabet backwards is zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba!)

Letter S. A great letter. Although letter C sometimes makes the same initial sound, letter S is the only letter dedicated to that sound. To me, it is also a lot more elegant and sinuous. Plus, letter C could be removed completely from the alphabet and we would get along just fine... replacing all instances of C with K or S. It is believed by some that the letter S was developed from ancient Greek. If you'll look at the illustration of the letter Sigma on this site: http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/greek/index.asp, you will see that sigma was written as something that appears kind of S-ish. If you'd like to purchase your own letter S, here is one site: http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?origin=page.jsp&namespace=browse&event=link.itemDetails&categoryId=342679&BP=8108&cm_mmc=Trafficleader-_-Datafeed-_-Datafeed-_-Datafeed&sku=65%2f90019 there are many, many others. :) (Addendum- Rosencreuz) The earliest common ancestor of Latin 'S', Hebrew character for 'shin' and Arabic character for'sin' appears in about 1500 B.C. of a bow. The late Proto- Canaanite character for 'shin' was the model for the Greek character ' sigma'. Its probable origin was the Phoenician symbol for a voiceless sibilant.

Modern Hindi is written in Devanagari script and the standard Hindi alphabet, as agreed by the Government of India, has 11 vowels and 35 consonants = 46 characters.

Note however that there are many other languages spoken in India.

I wonder whether the alphabet letters should touch the top line or not. In Sri Lanka we use 4 rule sheets to teach our kids on how to write English alphabets. There is a dispute between our colleagues regarding the touch of the letters to the top line. some one please help & say which is right & why

'Y' is the second-to-last letter of the English alphabet. The English alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. ------------- "What is the second-to-last letter of the alphabet?" "Y" "Just wanted to know, that's all!" ----------------- Another answer The second-to-last letter of the alphabet is 'e'; the last letter is 't.'

E

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