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The APCO phonetic alphabet, a.k.a. LAPD radio alphabet, is the term for an old competing spelling alphabet to the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet, defined by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International [1] from 1941 to 1974, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California and ...
These ligatures are proper letters in some Scandinavian languages, and so are used to render names from those languages, and likewise names from Old English. Some American spellings replace ligatured vowels with a single letter; for example, gynæcology or gynaecology is spelled gynecology .
Certain languages' standard alphabets have letters, or letters with diacritics (e.g., umlauts, rings, tildes), that do not exist in the English alphabet. If these letters have two-letter ASCII substitutes, the ICAO/ITU code words for the two letters are used.
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Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
General Use: Private Use: 10-40 Advise if Officer...available for radio call. Notification Silent run - No light or siren — 10-41 Tune to ... kcs. for test with mobile unit or emergency service. Car change at ... Beginning tour of duty 10-42 — Crew change at ... Ending tour of duty Off duty 10-43 Take school crossing Information — 10-44 —
Old and Middle English had a number of non-Latin letters that have since dropped out of use. Some of these either took the names of the equivalent runes, since there were no Latin names to adopt, or were runes themselves (thorn, wyn). Æ æ Ash or æsc / ˈ æ ʃ /, used for the vowel / æ /, which disappeared from the language and then reformed.
The most words win. Add letter point values, using Scrabble letter values. Remove one or two letters from each word and count the remaining tiles, rewarding longer words. Sum of the squares of the lengths of the words, rewarding long words more. The first player to spell or steal some number of (in the Selchow & Righter, eight [5]) words wins.