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the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Twice when the phrase appears ... first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ...

| type = Alphabet | typedesc = (non-linear writing) ... advocated the use of a type of string alphabet, where knots were used to ...

to ordering according to letters of the alphabet. Collating lists of words ... alphabet. For example, the thirty-letter alphabet of Spanish treats ñ ...

could also be transcribed into the Latin alphabet by sound, giving IHS and ... iota-eta-sigma or ΙΗΣ. Here the Greek letter eta was transliterated as ...

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...

("time") and gramma ("letter"). In a pure chronogram ... demonstrates that the origin of the letter w as a double v or u was ...

script, an important precursor to the true alphabet. Ugarit's ... royal correspondence from Ugarit: one letter from King Ammittamru I and ...

century. It was modelled on the Landa alphabet. The name Gurmukhi means ... * It is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent ...

It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ). Examples of wavelike phenomena are light, water waves, and sound waves. ...

and those which do not use the Latin alphabet cannot be expected to use ... though each consists letters of the Latin alphabet - they are symbols intended ...

Bible, and inventor of the first Gothic alphabet. He was probably descended ... language after devising the first Gothic alphabet. He later participated in ...

and may evolve to develop syllabaries; an alphabet provides symbols for all ... Letter and word recording used to presuppose penmanship, and in earlier ...

and new scripts, such as the Phoenician alphabet developed, numerous clay ... [[Image:Letter Luenna Louvre AO4238.jpg|thumb|Letter sent by the high ...

& Sons, 1919), 310-312. In an 1879 letter to The Times (London), he ... for developing the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), a phonetically augmented ...

numerous benefits over Haüy's raised letter method, the most notable ... to revise and perfect his system, adding letter “w” and removing the ...

periods. The Greeks used their own alphabet for writing the Egyptian ... dozen demotic glyphs added to the Greek alphabet when writing Coptic; and ...

are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used ... For the purpose of this mission, they devised the Glagolitic alphabet ...

oldest) known samples of the use of the Greek alphabet. written in an archaic form of the Greek alphabet, with some letter shapes ...

These particles, designated by the Greek letter beta (β), are a form of ... In a famous letter written in 1930, Wolfgang Pauli suggested that ...

*In the Arabic alphabet, ٥‎ (hāʼ) has numerical value of 5. *In the Greek alphabet, ε (epsilon) has numerical value of 5. ...

is a matter requiring great care. Each letter must be written precisely ... to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and is divided into two ...

Phonetic signs work like letters of an alphabet: a single sign stands for ... writing, such as record keeping or letter writing, used the Hieratic ...

been selected due to their places in the Greek alphabet; mu is seven letters after epsilon (electron), whereas tau is seven letter after mu. ...

Devanāgarī vowel table below, the "Letter" column contains the ... was that of a dot beneath the letter representing the nearest ...

is commonly represented by the Greek letter σ, but κ or γ are also occasionally used. An EC meter is normally used to measure conductivity ...

and determined that the so-called Martian alphabet was simply the subconscious ... new sentence with the same pre-determined letter. Once material was written ...

of origin (in contrast to the "Greek alphabet"). Among the general ... Serbian, Czech and Slovak, the Cyrillic alphabet is also known as azbuka ...

* The Tetragrammaton (YHVH) is the four-letter name of God. ... floor 4 or replace the number with the letter "F," particularly ...

11 checksum that was either a digit or the letter X. A Bookland EAN was generated ... title—the first edition of The Ultimate Alphabet and The Ultimate Alphabet ...

ciphers which changed the substitution alphabet for every letter. For example “GOOD DOG” can be encrypted as “PLSX TWF” where “L,” ...

of initial letters pronounced with the letter names, and "word acronyms ... pronunciation involves the combination of letter names and words, such as JPEG ( ...

" as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, or Χ) is an open access archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields ...

traditions of Karaites. A tenth-century letter from Kiev constitutes the ... in the Arabic language using the Hebrew alphabet. As Hebrew was considered ...

Russian alphabet of the Cyrillic (кириллица) alphabet. The Russian alphabet consists ...

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the period ... stop in German orthography, but there is a letter in the Arabic alphabet (Hamza ...

with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet (a technique that is also ... by the same letters of the alphabet—form song responsions, ...

example, ⟨f⟩ represents the written letter (grapheme) f. taken from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the same set of symbols ...

artists were trained by going through the alphabet, letter by letter. Most work was anonymous, as monastic life encouraged women to remain humble ...

of the Qur'an in the original Arabic alphabet many Islamic countries have ... and that the 26 letters of the English alphabet can represent the 45 phonemes ...

Fraternities and sororities often use the Greek alphabet to depict ... their college counterparts, have Greek-letter names. They also each possessed ...

a radius. The symbol for torque is τ, the Greek letter tau. The concept of torque, also called moment or couple, originated with the work of Archimedes ...

level. For example, the letters of the Roman alphabet contain their origins in pictograms. The letter A, for instance, represented the head of an ox ...

("four") and gramma ("letter"). By some counts, the ... [[Image:Sevent-two-letter-name.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Shemhamphorasch ...

flags for numerals and letters of the alphabet. Each flag or pennant has ... flags designate the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. * In auto racing ...

In 1530, More refused to sign a letter by the leading English churchmen ... divorce, but More was able to produce a letter in which he had instructed ...

the history of the formation of the alphabet, as well as, incidentally ... To arrive at this conclusion, Lemaire had to supply one destroyed ...

particle (or α particle, named after the first letter of the Greek alphabet) consists of two protons and two neutrons bound together. It is identical ...

to be constant at 65°F (18 °C). In his letter “Cooling by Evaporation ... While living in London in 1768, he developed a phonetic alphabet in ...

The oval-shaped zero and circular letter O together came into use ... The convention which has the letter O with a slash and the zero without ...

to left in an extension of the Persian alphabet, which is itself an extension ... Bengal, abolished the use of the Persian alphabet in the law courts of Bengal ...

quot;). It is spelled in the Hebrew alphabet: yodh, heh, vav, heh—YHWH ... spells. In one mystical tradition, each letter of the 4-letter form of the ...

version of the Torah in the Samaritan alphabet. The relationship to the ... of Alexandria in 367 C.E. In his Easter letter of 367 C.E., Athanasius, ...

finished in 1190. The book is posed as an extended letter on the apparent conflict between religion and philosophy (primarily, Aristotelian philosophy ...

(10:35-36, surrounded by inverted Hebrew letter nuns) in fact forms a separate ... של יוד), the serif of the Hebrew letter yod (י), the smallest letter ...

economy, was practically formulated in a letter written in 1860. He referred ... Jevons, for instance, introduced the logical alphabet—a series of ...

and aesthetic aspects of the written alphabet. Typography is performed ... and aesthetic aspects of the written alphabet. Typography, therefore, ...

their oral traditions, a new Kalasha alphabet has been created. Taj Khan ... wants to change husbands, she will write a letter to her prospective husband ...

symbols in another. For example, the Cyrillic letter Р is traditionally written as R in the Latin alphabet. Systems exist for transliteration of Arabic ...

full thickness of the tablets. There is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet called ... sometimes in antithesis to the letter of the Law. Quakers and ...

was served with a National Security Letter seeking information about ... the FBI decided to withdraw the National Security Letter. ...

based upon the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, connected with Jewish chronology ... sefirot and the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In other words, through ...

alphabets. In English orthography, the letter sequences "rock," ... orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic morphemes ...

Mong (Mong Leng). In the Romanized Popular Alphabet, developed in the 1950s, in Laos, these terms are written Hmoob Dawb (White Hmong) and Moob Leeg ...

the invention and implementation of the alphabet, by which McLuhan means ... [...] Print is the extreme phase of alphabet culture that detribalizes ...

The traditional Creek alphabet was adopted by the tribe in the late ... There are 20 letters. Although it is based on the Latin alphabet, ...

'gmz bu podf' by replacing each letter with the one following it ... a message (often each successive plaintext letter). He also invented what was ...

teacher by asking the hidden meaning of the first letter of the alphabet, which is almost straight stroke in Persian or Arabic, resembling the mathematical ...

| Letter to Sophie Küppers regarding Die Kunstismen ky/5_theories/images/Liss039L.jpg Letter] |- |align="center" ...

[[Image:Rashiscript.PNG|250px|thumb|The complete Hebrew alphabet in ... white globe featuring a prominent Hebrew letter, Shin (ש). The granite base ...

different medieval work called The Alphabet of Ben-Sira.) ... Aramaic. The Greek form, Sirach, adds the letter chi, similar to Hakeldamach ...

* An octave, the interval between two notes with the same letter name ... quot;—"H" being the eighth letter of the alphabet, twice ...

a new party. In Mustafa Kemal's letter to Ali Fethi Okyar, laicism ... government decreed that a modified Latin alphabet replace the Arabic script ...

for 300) and of Jesus (ΙΗ, the first two letter of his name ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ... * In the Latin alphabet, the letter X and the minuscule form of t ...

in the International Phonetic Alphabet, is the central teaching ... [[Image:Dzogchen A.png|thumb|Tibetan letter "A," the symbol ...

The term house itself gave rise to the letter 'B' through ... perfect: the marvelous history of our alphabet from A to Z |last=Sacks ...

(grámma), "letter", itself from grc|γράφειν ... with differences in yat (the 32nd letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet ...

The Alphabet of Ben Sira, one of the earliest literary parodies in ... The background and purpose of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is unclear ...

to a typebar that had the corresponding letter molded, in reverse, into ... IBM produced a series of typewriters called Thermotronic, with letter ...

[[Image:Navaho-enlistment-letter-page01.jpg|thumb|250px|Page one of ... [[Image:Navaho-enlistment-letter-page02.jpg|thumb|250px|Page two of ...

aspect are just some of those from the first letter of the alphabet. ====Literary==== Chaucer's early popularity is attested by the many ...

(Alpha Delta Phi). All recognized Greek letter organizations live on-campus ... of the growth in the number of Greek letter fraternities.Martha Mitchell ...

The Bengali writing system is not purely alphabet-based such as the ... , although the letter স does retain the voiceless alveolar fricative ...

age of 7, his father showed him only one letter of the alphabet, he taught ... I put himself in, sending Šafárik a letter and granting him a pension ...

script, in imitation of the Roman alphabet, and spawned such inventions ... to the creation of Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Much of the vocabulary ...

work, the story elicited a fan letter from the magazine's ... "but there is of course no K in the alphabet here and I gave up after ...

In "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason ... * The Letter * Foreclusion - Foreclosure * Jouissance * Lack (manque) ...

the scriptures were written in the Coptic alphabet. However, due to the Arabization ... supported by the entire See, sent a letter to Nestorius known as "The ...

the group under the name Aleph, the first letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. Aleph accepted responsibility for the actions of several former senior ...

Law is more important than fulfilling the letter of the Law. ... *[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/samaritan.htm Samaritan alphabet] ...

"that ingrate," and, in an 1838 letter to George Bariţ, downplayed ... prince Alexandru II Ghica (in a private letter, he stated: "let them ...

had agreed did Sayers send her another letter in an envelope marked "Strictly ... the plot for Whose Body? can be seen in a letter Sayers wrote on January 22, 1921: ...

over the last two lines of his 1302 letter to Pope Boniface VIII. It ... of their diplomatic letters, such as the letter from Arghun to French King ...

In a letter to his brother, Baum wrote that the book's publisher ... (reprint), The Master Key, The Army Alphabet, The Navy Alphabet, The ...

Vail, developed the Morse code signaling alphabet with Morse. America's ... thereafter, Marconi radiotelegraphed the letter "S" across the ...

example, if several dozen letters of the alphabet were randomly lined up, ... the subunits of DNA are like a four-letter alphabet carrying information ...

has been transliterated using the Latin alphabet. The system most commonly ... (aphorisms); here the whole Mātrika (alphabet) is abbreviated. This abbreviation ...

Examples include 手紙 tegami "letter," 日傘 higasa "parasol ... convention such as is used with the Roman Alphabet, uses radical-and-stroke ...

library, John H. Taylor, wrote a similar letter, though the actual contents ... in 1970. Upon his release, he wrote a letter to the Communist Party's ...

in Sanskrit (which becomes hamso if the first letter in the next word is /h/). Upon repeating this hamso indefinitely, it becomes so-aham, meaning ...

enigma. Since the discovery of his "Letter to the Alexandrians" ... Athenodorus. Augustus, according to a letter, was surprised at the clarity ...

became disillusioned with America. In a 1961 letter to Gus Hall, then leader of the Communist Party of the USA, Du Bois wrote, "Today I have ...

zero had morphed into the Greek letter omicron (otherwise meaning 70). Another true zero was used in tables alongside Roman numerals by 525 (first ...

quot; by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.Letter: General Nelson A. Miles to the Commissioner of Indian ...

27:30 as the opening of Solomon's letter to the Queen of Sheba. ... # It must match the rasm, letter for letter. # It must conform with ...

[http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue04/Letter.html Letter From Janet Asimov ... upon Isaac beyond teaching him the Hebrew alphabet.) For many years, Asimov ...

* Some computer users may use "3" as an alternate to the ... * Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor 13:13) mentions ...

upon him for his opposition, sent a secret letter to the Spartan Admiral, Astyochus ... A letter dispatched to Sparta by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus ...

are counted and mapped onto the Roman alphabet, the word "BACH" ... works at Bad Berka in 1814 and 1815. In a letter of 1827 he compared the experience ...

issues. Kaas himself negotiated a letter of constitutional guarantee ... to Hitler, Kaas somehow arranged for a letter of constitutional guarantee ...

jpg|left|thumb|200px|Pachelbel's autograph letter]] Even though Pachelbel was outstandingly successful as organist, composer, and teacher ...

croix gammée), as each arm resembles the Greek letter Γ (gamma) * hook cross (German: de|Hakenkreuz); * sun wheel, a name also used as a synonym ...

colonies. They created the oldest known 24-letter alphabet, a shortening of earlier 30-letter alphabets such as Proto-Sinaitic and Ugaritic. ...

was delivered in his poem "An Open Letter": :Don't be ... * 1983: An Open Letter, Field Day * 1983: Among Schoolchildren, Queen ...

Clare O'Farrell. [http://www.michel-foucault.com/tls.html Letter to The Times Literary Supplement (unpublished)], Foucault Resources. February ...

code. The genetic code consists of three-letter "words" called ... amino acids. Since there are 4 bases in 3-letter combinations, there are 64 ...

in Venice until 1570 and, according to a letter written by the Croatian miniaturist ... * __________. Letter to the Editor. Art Bulletin 48 (1): 125-127. ...

century, the country adopted the Cyrillic alphabet, but it later reverted to ... surviving document in Romanian is a letter written in 1521, sent by ...

sectors, with codenames using a spelling alphabet—from Able, west of Omaha ... for ourselves in a free world (Eisenhower, Letter to Allied Forces).Whitmarsh, 42. ...

Filofei (Philotheus of Pskov) composed a letter to Ivan III, with the prophecy ... co-official next to Russian. The Cyrillic alphabet is the only official script ...