"to spell it correctly, and its meaning will be indicated by the similarity to words of the same meaning and family. English uses a 26 letter Latin alphabet, but the number of graphemes is expanded by several digraphs, trigraphs, and tetragraphs, while the letter ""q"" is not used as a grapheme by itself, only in the digraph ""qu"". Each grapheme may represent a limited number of phonemes depending on etymology and location in the word. Likewise each phoneme may be represented by a limited number of graphemes. Some letters are not part of any grapheme, but function as etymological markers."
"also the only English letter whose name is not pronounced with any of the sounds that the letter typically makes in words, with the exception of H for some speakers. Some speakers shorten the name ""double u"" into ""dub-u"" or just ""dub""; for example, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington, University of Wyoming, University of Waterloo, University of the Western Cape and University of Western Australia are all known colloquially as ""U Dub"", and the automobile company Volkswagen, abbreviated ""VW"", is sometimes pronounced ""V-Dub"". The fact that many website URLs require a ""www."" prefix has been influential in promoting these"
"would represent all the colonist's speech. (Noah Webster had some success simplifying the spelling used in the US.) As a result of these and other factors, all 26 letters of the English alphabet appear as silent letters in some words, although a word with a silent ""v"" is challenging to identify. The following list is based on US spellings and pronunciations, with the exception of fivepence. A: bread B: debt C: indict D: Wednesday, handkerchief E: give F: fifth, arfvedsonite G: phlegm H: honor I: business J: marijuana K: knee L: talk M: mnemonic N: autumn O: leopard P: receipt"
"Chambers cites an example from southern Ontario, Canada. The last letter of the English alphabet is called ""zed"" everywhere in the English-speaking world except for the United States, where it is known as ""zee"". Though the use of ""zee"" is stigmatized in southern Ontario, children learn it this way because of the alphabet song that rhymes ""zee"" with ""vee"". Surveys in southern Ontario show a higher proportion of young people who produce ""zee"" compared to older people. In a Toronto survey in 1979, two-thirds of the twelve-year-olds completed their recitation of the alphabet with ""zee"" but only 8 percent of"
"Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde"", a township in Ontario, at 61 letters or 68 non-space characters. The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is Cottonshopeburnfoot (19 letters) and the longest which is hyphenated is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe (29 characters). The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is ""Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg"", a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means ""Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds"" and is sometimes facetiously translated as ""you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle"". The lake"
"English alphabet The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form, and the same letters constitute the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The exact shape of printed letters varies depending on the typeface (and font), and the shape of handwritten letters can differ significantly from the standard printed form (and between individuals), especially when written in cursive style. English is the only major modern European language requiring no diacritics for native words (although a diaeresis is used by some publishers in words such as ""coöperation"" or ""naïve""). Written English does,"
"Even when the name of a person is spelled with a diacritic, like Charlotte Brontë, this may be dropped in English language articles and even official documents such as passports either due to carelessness, the typist not knowing how to enter letters with diacritical marks, or for technical reasons - California, for example, does not allow names with diacritics as the computer system cannot process such characters. They also appear in some worldwide company names and/or trademarks such as Nestlé or Citroën. The following languages have letter-diacritic combinations that are not considered independent letters. Several languages that are not written"
"Z Z (named ""zed"" or ""zee"" ) is the 26th and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In most English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Zambia and Australia, the letter's name is ""zed"" , reflecting its derivation from the Greek ""zeta"" (this dates to Latin, which borrowed X, Y, and Z from Greek, along with their names), but in American English its name is ""zee"" , analogous to the names for B, C, D, etc., and deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form"
"only planet whose name in English is not derived from Greco-Roman mythology. Because it was only generally accepted as a planet in the 17th century, there is no tradition of naming it after a god. (The same is true, in English at least, of the Sun and the Moon, though they are no longer generally considered planets.) The name originates from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word ""erda"", which means ground or soil and was first used in writing as the name of the sphere of Earth perhaps around 1300. As with its equivalents in the other Germanic languages, it derives"
"Amen."" According to the ""Guinness Book of World Records"", at six letters long, ""Euouae"" is the longest word in the English language made up of nothing but vowels (the v spelling notwithstanding), and also the English word with the most consecutive vowels. As a mnemonic coming from Latin, it is unclear that it should count as an English word; however, it is found in the unabridged Collins English Dictionary. A similar abbreviation, Aevia (or Aeuia), was used for Alleluia in medieval Office books. In Venetian and other Italian Office-Books of the 16th century, an equivalent abbreviation Hal'a, or Hal'ah, can"
"anybody not literally L, G, B or T) producing the variants ""LGBTQ"" and ""LGBTQQ"""". In the United Kingdom, it is sometimes stylized as ""LGB&T"", whilst the Green Party of England and Wales uses the term ""LGBTIQ"" in its manifesto and official publications. The order of the letters has not been standardized; in addition to the variations between the positions of the initial ""L"" or ""G"", the mentioned, less common letters, if used, may appear in almost any order. Longer initialisms based on ""LGBT"" are sometimes referred to as ""alphabet soup"". Variant terms do not typically represent political differences within the"
"with American English, but unlike British English, collective nouns are almost always singular in construction, e.g., ""the government was unable to decide"" as opposed to ""the government were unable to decide"". ""Shan't"", the use of ""should"" as in ""I should be happy if ..."", the use of ""haven't any"" instead of ""haven't got any"" and the use of ""don't let's"" in place of ""let's not"", common in upper-register British English, are almost never encountered in Australian (or North American) English. ""River"" generally follows the name of the river in question as in North America, i.e., ""Darling River"", rather than the"
"of just 0.1% in words. Only is used less often. is the 24th letter in relative frequency as the first letter of an English word. In most European languages written in the Latin script, such as in Romance and Germanic languages, appears almost exclusively in the digraph . In French, Occitan, Catalan and Portuguese, represents or ; in Spanish, it represents . replaces for before front vowels and , since in those languages represents a fricative or affricate before front vowels. In Italian represents (where is the semivowel allophone of ). It is not considered to be part of the"
"al. (2018) found that native English speakers have little conscious awareness of the looptail 'g' (). They write: ""Despite being questioned repeatedly, and despite being informed directly that G has two lowercase print forms, nearly half of the participants failed to reveal any knowledge of the looptail 'g', and only 1 of the 38 participants was able to write looptail 'g' correctly."" In English, the letter appears either alone or in some digraphs. Alone, it represents In words of Romance origin, is mainly soft before (including the digraphs and ), , or , and hard otherwise. Soft is also used"
"a short vowel, the way for example P is doubled to indicate the difference between 'super' and 'supper'. However, that is changing with newly coined words, such as 'divvy up' and 'skivvies'. Like J, K, Q, X, and Z, V is not used very frequently in English. It is the sixth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 1.03% in words. V is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the Australian version of the game of Scrabble. C also cannot be used in the American version."
"the proton (atomic) number of an element, such as ""Z""=3 (Lithium). On German typewriter- and computer keyboards (in comparison to those used in the UK/US), the positions of the letters Z and Y are swapped. (In German, Y is only used in loanwords and names.) Z Z (named ""zed"" or ""zee"" ) is the 26th and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In most English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Zambia and Australia, the letter's name is ""zed"" , reflecting its derivation from the Greek ""zeta"" (this dates"
"and SAMPA these letters have the same sound value as in IPA. In Kirshenbaum they have the same value except for the letter r. The list below only includes alphabets that lack: English is the only major modern European language requiring no diacritics for native words (although a diaeresis is used by some publishers in words such as ""coöperation""). Note for Portuguese: ""k"", ""w"" and ""y"" were part of the alphabet until several spelling reforms during the 20th century, the aim of which was to change the etymological Portuguese spelling into an easier phonetic spelling. These letters were replaced by"
"or hyphens, for example Henry Hepburne-Scott, with some families having as many as three or four words making up their surname, such as Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton and Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry. However, it is not unusual for compound surnames to be composed of separate words not linked by a hyphen, for example Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the Conservative Party, whose surname is ""Duncan Smith"". English name English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a"
"spelling without a is the standard form in American English. It has been suggested that the adoption of the spelling without a ""signified one of the ALP's earliest attempts at modernisation"", and served the purpose of differentiating the party from the Australian labour movement as a whole and distinguishing it from other British Empire labour parties. The decision to include the word ""Australian"" in the party's name – rather than just ""Labour Party"" as in the United Kingdom – has been attributed to ""the greater importance of nationalism for the founders of the colonial parties"". The Australian Labor Party has"
"In US spellings, silent letters are sometimes omitted (e.g., ""acknowledgment"" / UK ""acknowledgement"", ""ax"" / UK ""axe, ""catalog"" / UK ""catalogue, ""program"" / UK ""programme outside computer contexts), but not always (e.g., ""dialogue is the standard spelling in the US and the UK; ""dialog"" is regarded as a US variant; the spelling ""axe"" is also often used in the US). In most words, silent letters are written in both styles (e.g., ""debt"", ""guard"", ""house""). The Danish language has two different letters which can be silent. The letter is silent in most dialects if followed by , as in ""hvad"" (‘what’),"
"the alphabet, most of which include the sound they represent. The ""haitch"" pronunciation of ""h"" has spread in England, being used by approximately 24% of English people born since 1982 and polls continue to show this pronunciation becoming more common among younger native speakers. Despite this increasing number, the pronunciation without the sound is still considered to be standard in England, although the pronunciation with is also attested as a legitimate variant. Authorities disagree about the history of the letter's name. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" says the original name of the letter was in Latin; this became in Vulgar Latin,"
"Oxford ""American"" English Dictionary, along with /eɪrɪn/ ('ay-rin' as in ""A to Z"") which is heard in the American deep south. However the difference in these pronunciations in American English is often small or nonexistent due to its longer ""a"" than British English, as can be heard in American media such as episodes of Lost, recorded interviews with Aaron Copland, or Hollywood's 1999 Shakespeare movie, Titus. Aaron (given name) Aaron is a hellenized Hebrew masculine given name. The 'h' phoneme in the original Hebrew pronunciation ""Aharon"" (אהרן) is dropped in the Greek, Ααρών, from which the English form, Aaron, is"
"only occurs in one word (""kyning"") and loanwords, so there is no tile for it. ""J"", ""V"", ""Q"", and ""Z"" are only used in loanwords. Anglo-Saxon uses the letter ""Ƿ"", but it was replaced by ""W"" in this set because it can be easily confused with P. Anglo-Saxon also uses the letter ""Ȝ"", but it is a typographic variant of G, so that is used instead. This version is hand-made and not an official edition by Mattel. Arabic-language editions use the following 100 tiles: Although Arabic letters have up to four forms, Scrabble tiles use the isolated form. In some"
"especially when heard over the telephone or a radio communications link. Spelling alphabets such as the ICAO spelling alphabet, used by aircraft pilots, police and others, are designed to eliminate this potential confusion by giving each letter a name that sounds quite different from any other. The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z. The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text. The & has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. Historically, the figure"
"major exception: in American English, ""the United States"" is almost universally used with a singular verb. Although the construction ""the United States are"" was more common early in the history of the country, as the singular federal government exercised more authority and a singular national identity developed (especially following the American Civil War), it became standard to treat ""the United States"" as a singular noun. The following verbs show differences in transitivity between BrE and AmE: American and British English grammatical differences One of the most notable differences between American English and British English is their differences of grammar. In"
"T T (named ""tee"" ) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in English-language texts. ""Taw"" was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ""Taw"", Greek alphabet Tαυ (""Tau""), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. In English, usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive ( and X-SAMPA: ), as in"
"contains only letters (A–Z), digits and ""<"" as space character, but no bar graph or similar. Names containing non-English letters are usually spelled in the correct way in the visual (non-machine-readable) zone of the passport, but are mapped into A-Z according to the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in the machine-readable zone. The following mapping is specified for EU languages: å → AA; ä/æ → AE; ö/ø/œ → OE, ü → UE (German) or UXX (Spanish) and ß → SS. Letters with accents are otherwise replaced by simple letters (ç → C, ê → E, etc.). For"
"Vespucci's first name. The feminine form ""America"" accorded with the feminine names of Asia, Africa, and Europa. In modern English, North and South America are generally considered separate continents, and taken together are called ""America"" or ""the Americas"" in the plural. When conceived as a unitary continent, the form is generally ""the continent of America"" in the singular. However, without a clarifying context, singular ""America"" in English commonly refers to the United States of America. Historically, in the English-speaking world, the term America used to refer to a single continent until the 1950s (as in Van Loon's Geography of 1937):"
"Silent English alphabet A silent English alphabet is a list of English words, each containing a silent letter from A to Z. The term was coined by the linguist John Higgins who produced an early version of such a list in 1983. There are many reasons why English spelling has such a high usage of silent letters. English has been borrowing words when needed from more than 350 other languages. Some of those words had sounds not used in English, and the spelling was not always adapted to reflect this. An example is the sometimes-silent ""t"" in tsunami. After the"
"sounds. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive. T T (named ""tee"" ) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in English-language texts. ""Taw"" was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ""Taw"", Greek alphabet Tαυ (""Tau""), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. In English, usually"
"S S (named ""ess"" , plural ""esses"") is the 19th letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in '""sh""ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (Σ) came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ""šîn"", its name ""sigma"" is taken from the letter ""samekh"", while the shape of ""samekh"" but name and position of"
"common names beginning with B listed Bermuda, which is a British Overseas Territory, and Britain, which is the name of the islands off the western coast of Europe on which the United Kingdom, except Ireland, is situated. A list of countries beginning with A also accepted America, as it ""is the way most Australians would say it"", despite the country in question actually being called the United States of America. Lately, countries was replaced as Sovereign States to avoid any short naming (United States and America), confusion or partial duplicating (Great Britain and England). The show's premiere on 29 January"
"constraint to the original, avoiding the most commonly used letter of the alphabet. This precludes the use of words normally considered essential such as ""je"" (""I""), ""et"" (""and"") and ""le"" (masculine ""the"") in French, as well as ""me,"" ""be,"" and ""the"" in English. The Spanish version contains no ""a"", which is the second most commonly used letter in the Spanish language (first being ""e""), while the Russian version contains no о. The Japanese version does not use い (""i"") at all. ""A Void""'s plot follows a group of individuals looking for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part"