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In capitalized form, Ch is used at the beginning of a sentence (Chechtal se. "He giggled."), while CH or Ch can be used for standalone letter in lists etc. and only fully capitalized CH is used when the letter is a part of an abbreviation (e.g. CHKO Beskydy) and in all-uppercase texts.
Not all words in this list are acceptable in Scrabble tournament games. Scrabble tournaments around the world use their own sets of words from selected dictionaries that might not contain all the words listed here. Qi is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments, [10] and was added to the official North American word list in 2006. [11]
ו (at beginning of a word or in the middle, when not next to a vav acting as a vowel [/o/ or /u/]) (full spelling וו : Vav is doubled in the middle of a word but not at the beginning except if initial affix letter except "and" prefix), ב (at end of a word or in the middle, when next to a vav acting as a vowel [/o/ or /u/])
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
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).
Some Catalan surnames conserve the letter y and the word-final digraph ch (pronounced /k/), e. g. Layret, Aymerich. The following table shows the letters and their names in Standard Catalan ( IEC ) and Standard Valencian ( AVL ):
The letter which most confuses people is /j/, which has its Central-European values, a y sound as in the j in English hallelujah. Two English consonant sounds, ch in chair and j in jump, are transcribed with two IPA letters apiece, /tʃ/ and /dʒ/. The English digraphs ch, ng, qu, sh, th are not used. See and hear also consonant audio chart.
The letter c , outside of the digraph ch , always represents a hard /k/ sound. However, it never occurs in "soft positions", i.e. before i y e ê , where k is used instead, while k never occurs elsewhere except in the digraph kh and a few loanwords .