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Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples cac-, kak-[1]bad: Greek: κακός (kakós), κάκιστος (kákistos): cachexia ...
Chief – CH; Chlorine – CL (chemical symbol) Chromosome – X or Y; Church – CH or CE (Church of England) or RC (Roman Catholic) Circa – C; Circle – O (the letter O is a circle) City – NY , LA (Los Angeles), or EC (postcode for City of London) Closed - TO (like a door) Club – Y
Small capital M FUT [2] /m̥/ ꬺ M with crossed-tail Teuthonista [4] ꟽ Epigraphic letter inverted M ꟿ Epigraphic letter archaic M ꝳ Mum Medieval abbreviation [9] ɴ ᶰ Small capital N IPA /ɴ/ IPA voiced uvular nasal: FUT [2] /n̥/ ᴎ ᴻ: Reversed N FUT [2] /ŋ̊/ cf. Cyrillic: И и ꬻ N with crossed-tail Teuthonista [4] ꝴ Num ...
Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] ( air ).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters English alphabet An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface Script type Alphabet Time period c. 16th century – present Languages English Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto ...
at the start of words: z-, v-, ge-t/m occasionally occurs between two points in ... letter sequences wy, ch, dd, ff, ll ... many five-letter words in consonant-vowel ...
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
This vocalic w generally represented /uː/, [3] [4] as in wss ("use"). [5] However at that time the form w was still sometimes used to represent a digraph uu (see W), not as a separate letter. In modern Welsh, "W" is simply a single letter which often represents a vowel sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as: