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  2. Thorn (letter) - Wikipedia

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    The letter thorn was used in Old English very early on, as was ð, which was called eth. Unlike eth, thorn remained in common use through most of the Middle English period. Both letters were used for the phoneme /θ/ , sometimes by the same scribe.

  3. Taw - Wikipedia

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    Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت ‎, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Hebrew tav ת ‎, Phoenician tāw 𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ. In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin ...

  4. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letter for the retroflex implosive, ᶑ , is not "explicitly IPA approved", [66] but has the expected form if such a symbol were to be approved. The ejective diacritic is placed at the right-hand margin of the consonant, rather than immediately after the letter for the stop: t͜ʃʼ , kʷʼ .

  5. Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the accent marks, every word-initial vowel must carry either of two so-called "breathing marks": the rough breathing (ἁ), marking an /h/ sound at the beginning of a word, or the smooth breathing (ἀ), marking its absence. The letter rho (ρ), although not a vowel, also carries rough breathing in a word-initial position.

  6. T - Wikipedia

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    T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is tee (pronounced / ˈ t iː / ), plural tees .

  7. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    If you still do that crap pose, I suggest you stop doing it. It's just not a trend anymore. Dad: A village in Hungary with some daddy issues. Damp: A municipality in Germany. It is indeed very damp. The name doesn't lie. Dank: A very memey place in Romania. It's the Hungarian name of a Romanian village Dâncu within the Aghireșu commune. Dashitou

  8. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    For example, at / ˈ æ t / consists of 2 letters a and t , which represent /æ/ and /t/, respectively. Sequences of letters may perform this role as well as single letters. Thus, in thrash / θ r æ ʃ /, the digraph th (two letters) represents /θ/. In hatch / h æ tʃ /, the trigraph tch represents /tʃ/.

  9. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages. For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom. For US place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United States.