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The position of letters in words and the position of suffix morphemes have an influence on word identification, letter detection, and the missing letter effect in texts. [20] [21] [22] The letters at the start and end of words, or the first and last letter of a word, contribute to how people read and recognize words. [21]
The zh /ʒ/ sound is represented by various letters in different languages, such as the letter Ž as used in many Slavic languages, the letter Ż as used in Kashubian, the letter ج in a number of Arabic dialects, the Persian alphabet letter ژ , the Cyrillic letter Ж , the Devanagari letter and the Esperanto letter Ĵ .
many five-letter words in consonant-vowel shape CCVCV or CVCCV; many short words with apostrophes between vowels, like ko'a pi'o etc.; usually no punctuation except for dots; may use commas in the middle of words (typically proper nouns).
The grapheme ß was originally made out of the characters long s (ſ) and z, the latter of which evolved into s. In Germany, the grapheme is still used today. Throughout history, various names have been spelled with ß. Many of the spelling variations are hypercorrected variants of other spellings of the name.
Others have suggested the letter could stand for the Z in the last name of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — who has described himself as “target No. 1” for Putin.
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Insular form of the letter g, Ᵹᵹ. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.
The word zeta is the ancestor of zed, the name of the Latin letter Z in Commonwealth English. Swedish and many Romance languages (such as Italian and Spanish ) do not distinguish between the Greek and Roman forms of the letter; " zeta " is used to refer to the Roman letter Z as well as the Greek letter.