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  2. What is the difference between a letter and a character?

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/55389

    Basically, a character that represents a sound in the language and that can be combined with other characters to form words. So in English, the letters are A-Z, in both capital and small versions. Characters include the letters, and also punctuation marks like a period or comma, and other symbols included in writing, like a dollar sign.

  3. Because people who read English will read words that have diacritics. It has become a small world, after all. The OP properly selected the answer that indicates English doesn't have accented letters which is basically your point. And the two answers are good. Note: I agreed with you to close at first, but then retracted after reading the answers.

  4. Individual letters and combinations of letters of the Latin alphabet are usually italicized. the letter q a lowercase n a capital W The plural is usually formed in English by adding s or es. He signed the document with an X. I need a word with two e’s and three s’s.

  5. punctuation - What is the " - " character on my keyboard? -...

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/340570/what-is-the-character-on-my-keyboard

    Two adjacent em dashes (a 2-em dash) are used to indicate missing letters in a word (“I just don’t f——ing care about 3.0 browsers”). Three adjacent em dashes (a 3-em dash) are used to substitute for the author’s name when a repeated series of works are presented in a bibliography, as well as to indicate an entire missing word in the ...

  6. What is the name for these keys on a computer keyboard?

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/84624

    I want to know the names for each of the six keys, not for the characters. In English, the names of the keys are the names of the characters that they produce. Therefore, the answer to your first question is: ` Grave Accent, or Backtick. This is an uncommon symbol outside the world of computers and no single name will be recognized by most ...

  7. When a word ends in 's' or 'x', do you add 's or just an

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/6295/when-a-word-ends-in-s-or-x-do-you-add-s...

    Definitely only use: Alex's But to expand further on these replies: - If I wrote: "my son's bedroom" I would mean; the bedroom of one son (singular).

  8. "Ph" is most commonly used in words that come from Greek, like "philosophy". The Greek letter that makes the "F" sound is "phi", written like φ. As for "Gh", most of the words containing it come from German and old English. It was pronounced then as "ch" is in German today - as a rasp in the back of the throat, like the "ch" in "Loch Ness".

  9. In other words, "correspondence" is a relationship between things that are similar, as in the example sentence from the Merriam-Webster definition: "Robert" is a boy's name, and the corresponding name for a girl is "Roberta." The sentence is about a direct relationship between two names which are the same type of thing.

  10. I realise the first concatenation of the 's and it's example. Second one which says double p or double l.So I couldn't understand that.Please help me to describe that with some example. 1, The plu...

  11. How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words?

    ell.stackexchange.com/questions/60065

    It was a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengo note, issued by Hungary in 1946. The students in my class wanted to know how they could say that last sentence in words in English. So I told them that I didn't know. They pointed out to me that if they wanted to read this bit of writing to someone they'd want to be able to use the words. Fair point.