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  2. Qere and Ketiv - Wikipedia

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    For example, the similarly shaped letters י ו ן ‎ are often exchanged (Deuteronomy 34:7), as are כ ב ‎ (Esther 3:4) and the similar-sounding ד ת ‎ (Song of Songs 4:9). Very often, one of the letters א ה ו י ‎ are inserted (Ecclesiastes 10:3) or removed from a word (Deuteronomy 2:33). Many other similar cases exist.

  3. Lingo (British game show) - Wikipedia

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    Each word is worth up to £500 but its value decreases by £50 for each attempt. Both the four-letter word and five-letter word games are followed by an eleven-letter puzzle word (twelve-letter puzzle word in Series 1) worth up to £1,000 but its value decreases by £180 per letter after the first one as more letters are revealed.

  4. Rey - Wikipedia

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    Rey (given name), a given name; Rey (surname), a surname; Rey Skywalker, a character in the Star Wars films; Rey, Iran, a city in Iran; Ray County, in Tehran Province of Iran; Rey, a 2015 Indian film; The Rey Commission of the European Union; Rey (band), a Japanese band who perform theme songs; Corey Lewis, a comic book creator also known as "Rey"

  5. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    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: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...

  6. Yery - Wikipedia

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    The letter ы is also used in Cyrillic-based alphabets of several Turkic and Mongolic languages (see the list) for a darker vowel . The corresponding letter in Latin-based scripts are ı , I with bowl (Ь ь), and y (in Turkmen). [4] In Tuvan, the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel. [5] [6]

  7. Decipherment of cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    He also guessed, correctly, that they represented not letters or hieroglyphics but words and syllables, and were to be read from left to right. [ 14 ] In 1700 Thomas Hyde first called the inscriptions "cuneiform", but deemed that they were no more than decorative friezes.

  8. Tie (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In use, the undertie is placed between the words of the lyric that are to be sung as one note to prevent the space between them being interpreted as a syllable break. For example, in the printed lyric "the‿im - mor - tal air", the undertie between "the" and "im-" instructs the singer to elide these two syllables into one, thus reducing five ...

  9. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...